SCA: security update for ansible (GHSA-jwcc-j78w-j73w)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 423343

Description

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

- Ansible 2.5 prior to 2.5.5, and 2.4 prior to 2.4.5, do not honor the no_log task flag for failed tasks.
When the no_log flag has been used to protect sensitive data passed to a task from being logged, and that
task does not run successfully, Ansible will expose sensitive data in log files and on the terminal of the
user running Ansible. (CVE-2018-10855)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jwcc-j78w-j73w

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 423343

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-10855

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.2

Threat Score: 4.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 10/10/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/16/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-10855

cwe: CWE-532