Impact

The Ansible collection "ibm.ibm_zhmc" writes password-like properties in clear text into its log file and into the output returned by some of its Ansible modules in the following cases:

• The 'boot_ftp_password' or 'ssc_master_pw' properties are passed as input to the zhmc_partition Ansible module
• The 'ssc_master_pw' or 'zaware_master_pw' properties are passed as input to the zhmc_lpar Ansible module
• The 'password' property is passed as input to the zhmc_user Ansible module (just in log file, not in module output)
• The 'bind_password' property is passed as input to the zhmc_ldap_server_definition Ansible module

These properties appear in the module output only when they were specified in the module input and when creating or updating the corresponding resources. They do not appear in the output when they were not specified in the module input or when retrieving facts for the corresponding resources.

A log file is created only when the "log_file" module input parameter of the Ansible modules is used. By default, no log file is created.

Patches

Has been fixed in ibm.ibm_zhmc version 1.9.3.

Workarounds

Not applicable, since fix is available.

References

None