SCA: security update for ansible (GHSA-588w-w6mv-3cw5)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 410686

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

- A flaw was found in the way Ansible (2.3.x before 2.3.3, and 2.4.x before 2.4.1) passed certain parameters
to the jenkins_plugin module. Remote attackers could use this flaw to expose sensitive information from a
remote host's logs. This flaw was fixed by not allowing passwords to be specified in the "params"
argument, and noting this in the module documentation. (CVE-2017-7550)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-588w-w6mv-3cw5

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 410686

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-7550

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.3

Threat Score: 8.1

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/19/2017

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-7550

cwe: CWE-532