CVE-2022-3697: Red Hat Ansible

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was found in Ansible in the amazon.aws collection when using the tower_callback parameter from the amazon.aws.ec2_instance module. This flaw allows an attacker to take advantage of this issue as the module is handling the parameter insecurely, leading to the password leaking in the logs.

Affected products

• Red Hat Ansible: from 2.5.0, before 2.10.0 (fixed in 2.10.0)
• Red Hat Ansible Collection: before 2.0.0 (fixed in 2.0.0); from 2.1.0, before 5.1.0 (fixed in 5.1.0)

Published 2022-10-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.