CVE-2019-14890

lowpriority · track · 34OT risk · elevatedEPSS 0.002 · 15 %ileEURUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.24% (15th) EPSS

CVSS 2.1 · low

Is it mine?

4 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

A vulnerability was found in Ansible Tower before 3.6.1 where an attacker with low privilege could retrieve usernames and passwords credentials from the new RHSM saved in plain text into the database at '/api/v2/config' when applying the Ansible Tower license.

remediations

Vendor fix, mitigation, or workaround guidance, as published by each source.

A vendor fix is available.

Fixedansible-tower-36/ansible-tower@sha256:bfc301f3d789f1c1d9cede65934015124447bba752b8033b68ab9e60156e81aa_amd64 as a component of Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.6 for RHEL 7redhat_csaf
For information on upgrading Ansible Tower, reference the Ansible Tower Upgrade and Migration Guide: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-tower/latest/html/upgrade-migration-guide/index.html
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3958
Workaroundansible-tower-36/ansible-tower@sha256:bfc301f3d789f1c1d9cede65934015124447bba752b8033b68ab9e60156e81aa_amd64 as a component of Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.6 for RHEL 7redhat_csaf
There is no mitigation for this issue since this issue happens when Red Hat license is applied.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

8.4

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–high · 2.1–8.4

v2.02.1lowAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 2.9

v3.18.4highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2 · impact 5.8

v3.08.4highCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Nsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.08.4highCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Nsecondary · secalert@redhat.com USexploitability 2 · impact 5.8

v3.08.4highCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Nsecondary · Red Hat Product Security US

v3.18.4highAV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Nsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

v3.17.7highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-312USprimaryCWE-312USCWE-312US

affected products (4)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

[UNKNOWN] Tower≤ 3.6.1enisa_euvdEU
Red Hat Inc. Ansible Tower≤ 3.6.0fstec_bduRU
redhat ansible tower= 3.6.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_tower:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
ansible-tower-36/ansible-tower@sha256:bfc301f3d789f1c1d9cede65934015124447bba752b8033b68ab9e60156e81aa_amd64 as a component of Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.6 for RHEL 7all versionsfixedredhat_csafUS

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

RHSA-2019:3958Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.6.1-1 - EL7 Container2019-11-25csaf · redhat_csafUS
Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.6.1-1 - EL7 Container

also known as (4)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd fstec_bdu nvd redhat_csaf NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2019-11-26modified 2026-06-17

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references (9)

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