CVE-2019-3869: Red Hat Ansible Tower

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

When running Tower before 3.4.3 on OpenShift or Kubernetes, application credentials are exposed to playbook job runs via environment variables. A malicious user with the ability to write playbooks could use this to gain administrative privileges.

Affected products

• Red Hat Ansible Tower: before 3.3.5 (fixed in 3.3.5); from 3.4.0, before 3.4.3 (fixed in 3.4.3)

Published 2019-03-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.