CVE-2026-16566

A flaw was found in the community.general Ansible collection's jenkins_credential module. When creating a Jenkins API token (credential_type: token), the module correctly protects the input password with no_log=True in the argument specification, but places the generated API token returned by the Jenkins API directly into the Ansible task result dictionary without output suppression. The token is emitted in plaintext via exit_json(), causing it to appear in Ansible task output, AWX/Tower/AAP Controller job logs, callback plugin output, CI/CD pipeline logs, and fact caching backends. An attacker with access to any of these output channels can obtain the Jenkins API token and gain the same privileges as the user who created it.

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