Ansible Community General Collection is vulnerable to exposure of sensitive information

Exploitation

No confirmed exploitation recorded. Patch Next marks exploitation only from CISA KEV.

CVSS

5.5 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS

• CVE-2025-14010: 0.19% estimated exploitation activity in the next 30 days; percentile 8.27 (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-03). This is a model estimate, not proof of exploitation or customer exposure.

As published by the source; long descriptions are shortened.

A flaw was found in ansible-collection-community-general. This vulnerability allows for information exposure (IE) of sensitive credentials, specifically plaintext passwords, via verbose output when running Ansible with debug modes. Attackers with access to logs could retrieve these secrets and potentially compromise Keycloak accounts or administrative access.

Published by the source

4 Dec 2025, 12:31 UTC

Last modified by the source

7 Jul 2026, 17:57 UTC

Source last checked

26 Oct 2026, 13:36 UTC

1. Revision 2 · amended · 26 Oct 2026

   Amended from ghsa record GHSA-8ggh-xwr9-3373

2. Revision 1 · created · 24 Oct 2026

   Published from osv record GHSA-8ggh-xwr9-3373

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# Patch Next advisory brief: CVE-2025-14010

Advisory: Ansible Community General Collection is vulnerable to exposure of sensitive information
IDs: CVE-2025-14010, GHSA-8ggh-xwr9-3373
Record: https://patchnext.com/advisories/cve-2025-14010 (revision 2, source checked 26 Oct 2026, 13:36 UTC)
Inventory: none attached. This brief comes from a public page and does not say whether any deployment is affected.
Severity: Medium (CVSS 5.5)
Exploitation: no confirmed exploitation recorded. Patch Next confirms exploitation only from CISA KEV.
Vendor response: Vendor fix available; fixed versions by package: ansible 12.2.0. A vendor fix does not mean a deployment is fixed.

## Affected components
- PyPI ansible: affected < 12.2.0; fixed in 12.2.0

## Suggested inspection (read-only)
- `python -m pip show ansible`: prints the installed version. Run with the environment that serves production active.

## Supported action
Upgrade each affected component to a fixed version on its release line. For a transitive dependency, upgrade the parent package or add an override or constraint, then regenerate the lockfile. Redeploy every environment that ran an affected version.

## Required regression checks
- Run the test suite and a production build.
- Exercise the features that depend on ansible.
- Repeat the inspection and confirm that only fixed versions remain installed.

## Rollback considerations
- Keep the previous lockfile and deployment artifact. Rolling back reinstates the vulnerable version, so apply any documented mitigation while you fix forward.

## Unresolved questions
- Which deployments run an affected version?
- Exploitation status can change. Check again before lowering the priority.
- Mark the work resolved only after the fixed version is verified in production.

## Sources
- Verified: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-8ggh-xwr9-3373 (OSV record GHSA-8ggh-xwr9-3373 lists affected ranges: PyPI ansible >=0 <12.2.0 (fixed))
- Verified: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8ggh-xwr9-3373 (GitHub-reviewed advisory GHSA-8ggh-xwr9-3373 lists affected ranges: PyPI ansible >=0 <12.2.0)

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