Medium
Security advisory
ansible before versions 2.5.14, 2.6.11, 2.7.5 is vulnerable to a information disclosure flaw in vvv+ mode with no_log on that can lead to leakage of sensible data.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2018-16876
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 10:28 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
ansible before versions 2.5.14, 2.6.11, 2.7.5 is vulnerable to a information disclosure flaw in vvv+ mode with no_log on that can lead to leakage of sensible data.
osv:CVE-2018-16876
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-16876",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
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"title": "CVE-2018-16876",
"summary": "ansible before versions 2.5.14, 2.6.11, 2.7.5 is vulnerable to a information disclosure flaw in vvv+ mode with no_log on that can lead to leakage of sensible data.",
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"GHSA-j569-fghw-f9rx",
"PYSEC-2019-141"
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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:50:21.628992385Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3835",
"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3836",
"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3837",
"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3838",
"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0564",
"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0590",
"https://usn.ubuntu.com/4072-1/",
"https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4396",
"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-16876",
"https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/49569"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 381595,
"published_at": "2019-01-03T15:29:01.163+00:00"
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