CVE-2019-3869
HIGH
7.2
CVSS Score
Published: March 28, 2019 at 01:04 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 02:35 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorAnsible Tower
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Severity
HIGH7.2
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%
Description
When running Tower before 3.4.3 on OpenShift or Kubernetes, application credentials are exposed to playbook job runs via environment variables. A malicious user with the ability to write playbooks could use this to gain administrative privileges.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
95%
Affected range stops below 3.3.5, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 3.4.3, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
Patch and advisory references
References (2)
x_refsource_CONFIRMIssue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3869x_refsource_MISCPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/ansible/awx/pull/3505CVSS
- Attack Vector
- NETWORK
- Complexity
- LOW
- Privileges
- HIGH
- User Interaction
- NONE
- Scope
- UNCHANGED
- Confidentiality
- HIGH
- Integrity
- HIGH
- Availability
- HIGH
Vector?
Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-214CWE-200
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