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 Packages

PyPI ansible

Affected versions: 2.5.0 (fixed in 7.0.0)

Related CVEs

CVE-2022-3697

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-cpx3-93w7-457x

Published

October 28, 2022 7:00 PM

Last Modified

August 31, 2023 9:28 PM

CVSS Score

7.5 /10

Primary Ecosystem

PyPI

Primary Package

ansible

GitHub Reviewed

✓ Yes

Dataset

Last updated: August 2, 2025 6:46 AM

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