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Medium · 5.5 CVE-2026-80158 EUVD-2026-66808GHSA-4m5f-rh76-cv72

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

Published Aug 26, 2026 · Updated Oct 16, 2026 · Assigned by redhat

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Red Hat Red Hat Ceph Storage 5 — —
Red Hat Red Hat Ceph Storage 9 — —
Red Hat Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1 — —
Red Hat Red Hat OpenStack Platform 18.0 — —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 ansible No fix yet —
Debian 13 ansible No fix yet —
Debian 12 ansible No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 ansible +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS ansible +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS ansible +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS ansible-core No fix yet —
Show 5 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 22.04 LTS ansible No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS ansible No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS ansible No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS ansible No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS ansible No fix yet —

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