CVE-2025-14010
📋 TL;DR
A vulnerability in ansible-collection-community-general exposes plaintext passwords in verbose output when running Ansible with debug modes. Attackers with access to logs can retrieve these credentials and potentially compromise Keycloak accounts or gain administrative access. Organizations using affected Ansible collections with debug logging enabled are at risk.
💻 Affected Systems
- ansible-collection-community-general
📦 What is this software?
⚠️ Risk & Real-World Impact
Worst Case
Attackers gain administrative access to Keycloak or other systems by extracting plaintext credentials from logs, leading to complete system compromise and data exfiltration.
Likely Case
Internal attackers or those with log access retrieve sensitive credentials, potentially gaining unauthorized access to systems managed by Ansible.
If Mitigated
With proper log access controls and debug mode disabled, the exposure is limited to authorized personnel only.
🎯 Exploit Status
Exploitation requires access to logs or console output where debug information is captured.
🛠️ Fix & Mitigation
✅ Official Fix
Patch Version: Check Red Hat advisory for specific fixed version
Vendor Advisory: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-14010
Restart Required: No
Instructions:
1. Update ansible-collection-community-general to the patched version. 2. Verify no debug output contains sensitive credentials. 3. Review and rotate any potentially exposed credentials.
🔧 Temporary Workarounds
Disable debug/verbose output
allAvoid using -v, -vv, -vvv flags or debug module when running Ansible playbooks containing sensitive credentials.
Run Ansible without verbose flags: ansible-playbook playbook.yml
Restrict log access
linuxImplement strict access controls on Ansible logs and debug output.
chmod 600 /var/log/ansible.log
setfacl -m u:ansible:r /var/log/ansible.log
🧯 If You Can't Patch
- Disable all debug and verbose logging in Ansible configurations
- Implement strict access controls and monitoring on all log files containing Ansible output
🔍 How to Verify
Check if Vulnerable:
Check if ansible-collection-community-general is installed and if debug output has been used with sensitive tasks.Check Version:
ansible-galaxy collection list | grep community.generalVerify Fix Applied:
Update to patched version and test that verbose output no longer exposes plaintext credentials.📡 Detection & Monitoring
Log Indicators:
- Plaintext passwords in Ansible logs
- Debug output containing 'password', 'secret', or credential fields
Network Indicators:
- None - this is a local information exposure vulnerability
SIEM Query:
source="ansible.log" AND ("password=" OR "secret=" OR "key=") AND (debug OR verbose OR -v)