# CVE-2026-80158: Ansible-collection-community-general: community.general: ipa\_getkeytab does not set no\_log on the bind\_pw parameter, disclosing the ipa bind password in logs and process listings

- Severity: CVSS 5.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-08-26 · Updated: 2026-10-16

## Affected

- ansible-collection-community-general: version range not reported
- ansible-collection-community-general: version range not reported
- ansible-collection-community-general: version range not reported
- ansible-collection-community-general: version range not reported

## Description

A flaw was found in the ipa_getkeytab module of the community.general Ansible collection. The module's bind_pw parameter, used to supply the LDAP simple-bind password when retrieving a Kerberos keytab, is not declared with no_log, unlike the sibling password parameter in the same module. As a consequence, the supplied IPA/LDAP bind password is recorded in cleartext in the managed host's system journal/syslog (the module's "Invoked with" record), is included in the module's return values and verbose (-v) output, and is displayed in Automation Controller / AWX job output. The password is additionally passed on the command line to the ipa-getkeytab helper (as --bindpw <value>), exposing it in the process list to local users while the command runs. An attacker able to read these logs, job output, or the process table can obtain the directory bind credential, potentially compromising the accounts and objects that credential can access.

## What to do

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## References

- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-80158
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2524651

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