CVE-2018-16859

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+- Windows - prevent sensitive content from appearing in scriptblock logging (CVE 2018-16859)

@@ -850,7 +850,8 @@ def _find_module_utils(module_name, b_module_data, module_path, module_args, tas
         # FUTURE: smuggle this back as a dict instead of serializing here; the connection plugin may need to modify it
         module_json = json.dumps(exec_manifest)
 
-        b_module_data = exec_wrapper.replace(b"$json_raw = ''", b"$json_raw = @'\r\n%s\r\n'@" % to_bytes(module_json))
+        # delimit the payload JSON from the wrapper to keep sensitive contents out of scriptblocks (which can be logged)
+        b_module_data = to_bytes(exec_wrapper) + b'\0\0\0\0' + to_bytes(module_json)
 
     elif module_substyle == 'jsonargs':
         module_args_json = to_bytes(json.dumps(module_args))

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+&chcp.com 65001 > $null
+$exec_wrapper_str = $input | Out-String
+$split_parts = $exec_wrapper_str.Split(@("`0`0`0`0"), 2, [StringSplitOptions]::RemoveEmptyEntries)
+If (-not $split_parts.Length -eq 2) { throw "invalid payload" }
+Set-Variable -Name json_raw -Value $split_parts[1]
+$exec_wrapper = [ScriptBlock]::Create($split_parts[0])
+&$exec_wrapper

@@ -119,12 +119,13 @@ def run(self, tmp=None, task_vars=None):
             exec_data = None
             # WinRM requires a special wrapper to work with environment variables
             if self._connection.transport == "winrm":
-                pay = self._connection._create_raw_wrapper_payload(script_cmd,
-                                                                   env_dict)
-                exec_data = exec_wrapper.replace(b"$json_raw = ''",
-                                                 b"$json_raw = @'\r\n%s\r\n'@"
-                                                 % to_bytes(pay))
-                script_cmd = "-"
+                pay = self._connection._create_raw_wrapper_payload(script_cmd, env_dict)
+                exec_data = to_bytes(exec_wrapper) + b"\0\0\0\0" + to_bytes(pay)
+
+                # build the necessary exec wrapper command
+                # FUTURE: this still doesn't let script work on Windows with non-pipelined connections or
+                # full manual exec of KEEP_REMOTE_FILES
+                script_cmd = self._connection._shell.build_module_command(env_string='', shebang='#!powershell', cmd='')
 
             result.update(self._low_level_execute_command(cmd=script_cmd, in_data=exec_data, sudoable=True, chdir=chdir))
 

@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@
 import json
 import tempfile
 import subprocess
+import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
 
 HAVE_KERBEROS = False
 try:
@@ -537,14 +538,17 @@ def exec_command(self, cmd, in_data=None, sudoable=True):
         return (result.status_code, result.std_out, result.std_err)
 
     def is_clixml(self, value):
-        return value.startswith(b"#< CLIXML")
+        return value.startswith(b"#< CLIXML\r\n")
 
     # hacky way to get just stdout- not always sure of doc framing here, so use with care
     def parse_clixml_stream(self, clixml_doc, stream_name='Error'):
-        clear_xml = clixml_doc.replace(b'#< CLIXML\r\n', b'')
-        doc = xmltodict.parse(clear_xml)
-        lines = [l.get('#text', '').replace('_x000D__x000A_', '') for l in doc.get('Objs', {}).get('S', {}) if l.get('@S') == stream_name]
-        return '\r\n'.join(lines)
+        clixml = ET.fromstring(clixml_doc.split(b"\r\n", 1)[-1])
+        namespace_match = re.match(r'{(.*)}', clixml.tag)
+        namespace = "{%s}" % namespace_match.group(1) if namespace_match else ""
+
+        strings = clixml.findall("./%sS" % namespace)
+        lines = [e.text.replace('_x000D__x000A_', '') for e in strings if e.attrib.get('S') == stream_name]
+        return to_bytes('\r\n'.join(lines))
 
     # FUTURE: determine buffer size at runtime via remote winrm config?
     def _put_file_stdin_iterator(self, in_path, out_path, buffer_size=250000):

@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
 import os
 import re
 import shlex
+import pkgutil
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
 from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
@@ -78,8 +79,10 @@
     # stream JSON including become_pw, ps_module_payload, bin_module_payload, become_payload, write_payload_path, preserve directives
     # exec runspace, capture output, cleanup, return module output
 
-    # NB: do not adjust the following line- it is replaced when doing non-streamed module output
-    $json_raw = ''
+    # only init and stream in $json_raw if it wasn't set by the enclosing scope
+    if (-not $(Get-Variable "json_raw" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)) {
+        $json_raw = ''
+    }
 }
 process {
     $input_as_string = [string]$input
@@ -1966,18 +1969,23 @@ def checksum(self, path, *args, **kwargs):
         return self._encode_script(script)
 
     def build_module_command(self, env_string, shebang, cmd, arg_path=None):
+        bootstrap_wrapper = pkgutil.get_data("ansible.executor.powershell", "bootstrap_wrapper.ps1")
+
         # pipelining bypass
         if cmd == '':
-            return '-'
+            return self._encode_script(script=bootstrap_wrapper, strict_mode=False, preserve_rc=False)
 
         # non-pipelining
 
         cmd_parts = shlex.split(cmd, posix=False)
         cmd_parts = list(map(to_text, cmd_parts))
         if shebang and shebang.lower() == '#!powershell':
             if not self._unquote(cmd_parts[0]).lower().endswith('.ps1'):
+                # we're running a module via the bootstrap wrapper
                 cmd_parts[0] = '"%s.ps1"' % self._unquote(cmd_parts[0])
-            cmd_parts.insert(0, '&')
+            wrapper_cmd = "type " + cmd_parts[0] + " | " + self._encode_script(script=bootstrap_wrapper,
+                                                                               strict_mode=False, preserve_rc=False)
+            return wrapper_cmd
         elif shebang and shebang.startswith('#!'):
             cmd_parts.insert(0, shebang[2:])
         elif not shebang:

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 - set_fact:
     become_test_username: ansible_become_test
     become_test_admin_username: ansible_become_admin
-    gen_pw: password123! + {{ lookup('password', '/dev/null chars=ascii_letters,digits length=8') }}
+    gen_pw: "{{ 'password123!' + lookup('password', '/dev/null chars=ascii_letters,digits length=8') }}"
 
 - name: create unprivileged user
   win_user:
@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@
   - SeInteractiveLogonRight
   - SeBatchLogonRight
 
+- name: fetch current target date/time for log filtering
+  raw: '[datetime]::now | Out-String'
+  register: test_starttime
+
 - name: execute tests and ensure that test user is deleted regardless of success/failure
   block:
   - name: ensure current user is not the become user
@@ -219,6 +223,7 @@
     assert:
       that:
       - whoami_out is successful
+      - become_test_username in whoami_out.stdout
     when: os_version.stdout_lines[0] == "async"
 
   - name: test failure with string become invalid key
@@ -320,6 +325,18 @@
       - nonascii_output.stdout_lines[0] == 'über den Fußgängerübergang gehen'
       - nonascii_output.stderr == ''
 
+  - name: get PS events containing password or module args created since test start
+    raw: |
+      $dt=[datetime]"{{ test_starttime.stdout|trim }}"
+      (Get-WinEvent -LogName Microsoft-Windows-Powershell/Operational |
+      ? { $_.TimeCreated -ge $dt -and $_.Message -match "{{ gen_pw }}|whoami" }).Count
+    register: ps_log_count
+
+  - name: assert no PS events contain password or module args
+    assert:
+      that:
+      - ps_log_count.stdout | int == 0
+
 # FUTURE: test raw + script become behavior once they're running under the exec wrapper again
 # FUTURE: add standalone playbook tests to include password prompting and play become keywords
 

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+- Windows - prevent sensitive content from appearing in scriptblock logging (CVE 2018-16859)

@@ -912,7 +912,8 @@ def _find_module_utils(module_name, b_module_data, module_path, module_args, tas
         # FUTURE: smuggle this back as a dict instead of serializing here; the connection plugin may need to modify it
         module_json = json.dumps(exec_manifest)
 
-        b_module_data = exec_wrapper.replace(b"$json_raw = ''", b"$json_raw = @'\r\n%s\r\n'@" % to_bytes(module_json))
+        # delimit the payload JSON from the wrapper to keep sensitive contents out of scriptblocks (which can be logged)
+        b_module_data = to_bytes(exec_wrapper) + b'\0\0\0\0' + to_bytes(module_json)
 
     elif module_substyle == 'jsonargs':
         module_args_json = to_bytes(json.dumps(module_args))

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+&chcp.com 65001 > $null
+$exec_wrapper_str = $input | Out-String
+$split_parts = $exec_wrapper_str.Split(@("`0`0`0`0"), 2, [StringSplitOptions]::RemoveEmptyEntries)
+If (-not $split_parts.Length -eq 2) { throw "invalid payload" }
+Set-Variable -Name json_raw -Value $split_parts[1]
+$exec_wrapper = [ScriptBlock]::Create($split_parts[0])
+&$exec_wrapper

@@ -126,12 +126,13 @@ def run(self, tmp=None, task_vars=None):
             exec_data = None
             # WinRM requires a special wrapper to work with environment variables
             if self._connection.transport == "winrm":
-                pay = self._connection._create_raw_wrapper_payload(script_cmd,
-                                                                   env_dict)
-                exec_data = exec_wrapper.replace(b"$json_raw = ''",
-                                                 b"$json_raw = @'\r\n%s\r\n'@"
-                                                 % to_bytes(pay))
-                script_cmd = "-"
+                pay = self._connection._create_raw_wrapper_payload(script_cmd, env_dict)
+                exec_data = to_bytes(exec_wrapper) + b"\0\0\0\0" + to_bytes(pay)
+
+                # build the necessary exec wrapper command
+                # FUTURE: this still doesn't let script work on Windows with non-pipelined connections or
+                # full manual exec of KEEP_REMOTE_FILES
+                script_cmd = self._connection._shell.build_module_command(env_string='', shebang='#!powershell', cmd='')
 
             result.update(self._low_level_execute_command(cmd=script_cmd, in_data=exec_data, sudoable=True, chdir=chdir))
 

@@ -278,6 +278,7 @@ def exec_command(self, cmd, in_data=None, sudoable=True):
             # starting a new interpreter to save on time
             b_command = base64.b64decode(cmd.split(" ")[-1])
             script = to_text(b_command, 'utf-16-le')
+            in_data = to_text(in_data, errors="surrogate_or_strict", nonstring="passthru")
             display.vvv("PSRP: EXEC %s" % script, host=self._psrp_host)
         else:
             # in other cases we want to execute the cmd as the script

@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@
 import json
 import tempfile
 import subprocess
+import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
 
 HAVE_KERBEROS = False
 try:
@@ -550,14 +551,17 @@ def exec_command(self, cmd, in_data=None, sudoable=True):
         return (result.status_code, result.std_out, result.std_err)
 
     def is_clixml(self, value):
-        return value.startswith(b"#< CLIXML")
+        return value.startswith(b"#< CLIXML\r\n")
 
     # hacky way to get just stdout- not always sure of doc framing here, so use with care
     def parse_clixml_stream(self, clixml_doc, stream_name='Error'):
-        clear_xml = clixml_doc.replace(b'#< CLIXML\r\n', b'')
-        doc = xmltodict.parse(clear_xml)
-        lines = [l.get('#text', '').replace('_x000D__x000A_', '') for l in doc.get('Objs', {}).get('S', {}) if l.get('@S') == stream_name]
-        return '\r\n'.join(lines)
+        clixml = ET.fromstring(clixml_doc.split(b"\r\n", 1)[-1])
+        namespace_match = re.match(r'{(.*)}', clixml.tag)
+        namespace = "{%s}" % namespace_match.group(1) if namespace_match else ""
+
+        strings = clixml.findall("./%sS" % namespace)
+        lines = [e.text.replace('_x000D__x000A_', '') for e in strings if e.attrib.get('S') == stream_name]
+        return to_bytes('\r\n'.join(lines))
 
     # FUTURE: determine buffer size at runtime via remote winrm config?
     def _put_file_stdin_iterator(self, in_path, out_path, buffer_size=250000):

@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
 import os
 import re
 import shlex
+import pkgutil
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
 from ansible.module_utils._text import to_text
@@ -78,8 +79,10 @@
     # stream JSON including become_pw, ps_module_payload, bin_module_payload, become_payload, write_payload_path, preserve directives
     # exec runspace, capture output, cleanup, return module output
 
-    # NB: do not adjust the following line- it is replaced when doing non-streamed module output
-    $json_raw = ''
+    # only init and stream in $json_raw if it wasn't set by the enclosing scope
+    if (-not $(Get-Variable "json_raw" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)) {
+        $json_raw = ''
+    }
 }
 process {
     $input_as_string = [string]$input
@@ -929,9 +932,11 @@ class NativeWaitHandle : WaitHandle
 $become_exec_wrapper = {
     chcp.com 65001 > $null
     $ProgressPreference = "SilentlyContinue"
-    $exec_wrapper_str = [System.Console]::In.ReadToEnd()
-    $exec_wrapper = [ScriptBlock]::Create($exec_wrapper_str)
-    &$exec_wrapper
+    $raw = [System.Console]::In.ReadToEnd()
+    $split_parts = $raw.Split(@("`0`0`0`0"), 0)
+    If (-not $split_parts.Length -eq 2) { throw "invalid payload" }
+    $json_raw = $split_parts[1]
+    &([ScriptBlock]::Create($split_parts[0]))
 }
 
 $exec_wrapper = {
@@ -955,10 +960,9 @@ class NativeWaitHandle : WaitHandle
     # stream JSON including become_pw, ps_module_payload, bin_module_payload, become_payload, write_payload_path, preserve directives
     # exec runspace, capture output, cleanup, return module output. Do not change this as it is set become before being passed to the
     # become process.
-    $json_raw = ""
 
-    If (-not $json_raw) {
-        Write-Error "no input given" -Category InvalidArgument
+    if (-not $(Get-Variable "json_raw" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)) {
+        Write-Error "no payload supplied" -Category InvalidArgument
     }
 
     $payload = ConvertTo-HashtableFromPsCustomObject -myPsObject (ConvertFrom-Json $json_raw)
@@ -1095,7 +1099,7 @@ class NativeWaitHandle : WaitHandle
     # wrapper which calls our read wrapper passed through stdin. Cannot use 'powershell -' as
     # the $ErrorActionPreference is always set to Stop and cannot be changed
     $payload_string = $payload | ConvertTo-Json -Depth 99 -Compress
-    $exec_wrapper = $exec_wrapper.ToString().Replace('$json_raw = ""', "`$json_raw = '$payload_string'")
+    $exec_wrapper = $exec_wrapper.ToString() + "`0`0`0`0" + $payload_string
     $rc = 0
 
     $exec_command = [Convert]::ToBase64String([System.Text.Encoding]::Unicode.GetBytes($become_exec_wrapper.ToString()))
@@ -1584,18 +1588,23 @@ def checksum(self, path, *args, **kwargs):
         return self._encode_script(script)
 
     def build_module_command(self, env_string, shebang, cmd, arg_path=None):
+        bootstrap_wrapper = pkgutil.get_data("ansible.executor.powershell", "bootstrap_wrapper.ps1")
+
         # pipelining bypass
         if cmd == '':
-            return '-'
+            return self._encode_script(script=bootstrap_wrapper, strict_mode=False, preserve_rc=False)
 
         # non-pipelining
 
         cmd_parts = shlex.split(cmd, posix=False)
         cmd_parts = list(map(to_text, cmd_parts))
         if shebang and shebang.lower() == '#!powershell':
             if not self._unquote(cmd_parts[0]).lower().endswith('.ps1'):
+                # we're running a module via the bootstrap wrapper
                 cmd_parts[0] = '"%s.ps1"' % self._unquote(cmd_parts[0])
-            cmd_parts.insert(0, '&')
+            wrapper_cmd = "type " + cmd_parts[0] + " | " + self._encode_script(script=bootstrap_wrapper,
+                                                                               strict_mode=False, preserve_rc=False)
+            return wrapper_cmd
         elif shebang and shebang.startswith('#!'):
             cmd_parts.insert(0, shebang[2:])
         elif not shebang:

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 - set_fact:
     become_test_username: ansible_become_test
     become_test_admin_username: ansible_become_admin
-    gen_pw: password123! + {{ lookup('password', '/dev/null chars=ascii_letters,digits length=8') }}
+    gen_pw: "{{ 'password123!' + lookup('password', '/dev/null chars=ascii_letters,digits length=8') }}"
 
 - name: create unprivileged user
   win_user:
@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@
   - SeInteractiveLogonRight
   - SeBatchLogonRight
 
+- name: fetch current target date/time for log filtering
+  raw: '[datetime]::now | Out-String'
+  register: test_starttime
+
 - name: execute tests and ensure that test user is deleted regardless of success/failure
   block:
   - name: ensure current user is not the become user
@@ -199,6 +203,7 @@
     assert:
       that:
       - whoami_out is successful
+      - become_test_username in whoami_out.stdout
 
   - name: test failure with string become invalid key
     vars: *become_vars
@@ -312,6 +317,18 @@
       - nonascii_output.stdout_lines[0] == 'über den Fußgängerübergang gehen'
       - nonascii_output.stderr == ''
 
+  - name: get PS events containing password or module args created since test start
+    raw: |
+      $dt=[datetime]"{{ test_starttime.stdout|trim }}"
+      (Get-WinEvent -LogName Microsoft-Windows-Powershell/Operational |
+      ? { $_.TimeCreated -ge $dt -and $_.Message -match "{{ gen_pw }}|whoami" }).Count
+    register: ps_log_count
+
+  - name: assert no PS events contain password or module args
+    assert:
+      that:
+      - ps_log_count.stdout | int == 0
+
 # FUTURE: test raw + script become behavior once they're running under the exec wrapper again
 # FUTURE: add standalone playbook tests to include password prompting and play become keywords
 

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+bugfixes:
+- Windows - prevent sensitive content from appearing in scriptblock logging (CVE 2018-16859)

@@ -850,7 +850,8 @@ def _find_module_utils(module_name, b_module_data, module_path, module_args, tas
         # FUTURE: smuggle this back as a dict instead of serializing here; the connection plugin may need to modify it
         module_json = json.dumps(exec_manifest)
 
-        b_module_data = exec_wrapper.replace(b"$json_raw = ''", b"$json_raw = @'\r\n%s\r\n'@" % to_bytes(module_json))
+        # delimit the payload JSON from the wrapper to keep sensitive contents out of scriptblocks (which can be logged)
+        b_module_data = to_bytes(exec_wrapper) + b'\0\0\0\0' + to_bytes(module_json)
 
     elif module_substyle == 'jsonargs':
         module_args_json = to_bytes(json.dumps(module_args))

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+&chcp.com 65001 > $null
+$exec_wrapper_str = $input | Out-String
+$split_parts = $exec_wrapper_str.Split(@("`0`0`0`0"), 2, [StringSplitOptions]::RemoveEmptyEntries)
+If (-not $split_parts.Length -eq 2) { throw "invalid payload" }
+Set-Variable -Name json_raw -Value $split_parts[1]
+$exec_wrapper = [ScriptBlock]::Create($split_parts[0])
+&$exec_wrapper

@@ -126,12 +126,13 @@ def run(self, tmp=None, task_vars=None):
             exec_data = None
             # WinRM requires a special wrapper to work with environment variables
             if self._connection.transport == "winrm":
-                pay = self._connection._create_raw_wrapper_payload(script_cmd,
-                                                                   env_dict)
-                exec_data = exec_wrapper.replace(b"$json_raw = ''",
-                                                 b"$json_raw = @'\r\n%s\r\n'@"
-                                                 % to_bytes(pay))
-                script_cmd = "-"
+                pay = self._connection._create_raw_wrapper_payload(script_cmd, env_dict)
+                exec_data = to_bytes(exec_wrapper) + b"\0\0\0\0" + to_bytes(pay)
+
+                # build the necessary exec wrapper command
+                # FUTURE: this still doesn't let script work on Windows with non-pipelined connections or
+                # full manual exec of KEEP_REMOTE_FILES
+                script_cmd = self._connection._shell.build_module_command(env_string='', shebang='#!powershell', cmd='')
 
             result.update(self._low_level_execute_command(cmd=script_cmd, in_data=exec_data, sudoable=True, chdir=chdir))
 

@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@
 import json
 import tempfile
 import subprocess
+import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET
 
 HAVE_KERBEROS = False
 try:
@@ -550,14 +551,17 @@ def exec_command(self, cmd, in_data=None, sudoable=True):
         return (result.status_code, result.std_out, result.std_err)
 
     def is_clixml(self, value):
-        return value.startswith(b"#< CLIXML")
+        return value.startswith(b"#< CLIXML\r\n")
 
     # hacky way to get just stdout- not always sure of doc framing here, so use with care
     def parse_clixml_stream(self, clixml_doc, stream_name='Error'):
-        clear_xml = clixml_doc.replace(b'#< CLIXML\r\n', b'')
-        doc = xmltodict.parse(clear_xml)
-        lines = [l.get('#text', '').replace('_x000D__x000A_', '') for l in doc.get('Objs', {}).get('S', {}) if l.get('@S') == stream_name]
-        return '\r\n'.join(lines)
+        clixml = ET.fromstring(clixml_doc.split(b"\r\n", 1)[-1])
+        namespace_match = re.match(r'{(.*)}', clixml.tag)
+        namespace = "{%s}" % namespace_match.group(1) if namespace_match else ""
+
+        strings = clixml.findall("./%sS" % namespace)
+        lines = [e.text.replace('_x000D__x000A_', '') for e in strings if e.attrib.get('S') == stream_name]
+        return to_bytes('\r\n'.join(lines))
 
     # FUTURE: determine buffer size at runtime via remote winrm config?
     def _put_file_stdin_iterator(self, in_path, out_path, buffer_size=250000):

@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
 import os
 import re
 import shlex
+import pkgutil
 
 from ansible.errors import AnsibleError
 from ansible.module_utils._text import to_native, to_text
@@ -78,8 +79,10 @@
     # stream JSON including become_pw, ps_module_payload, bin_module_payload, become_payload, write_payload_path, preserve directives
     # exec runspace, capture output, cleanup, return module output
 
-    # NB: do not adjust the following line- it is replaced when doing non-streamed module output
-    $json_raw = ''
+    # only init and stream in $json_raw if it wasn't set by the enclosing scope
+    if (-not $(Get-Variable "json_raw" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue)) {
+        $json_raw = ''
+    }
 }
 process {
     $input_as_string = [string]$input
@@ -2022,18 +2025,23 @@ def checksum(self, path, *args, **kwargs):
         return self._encode_script(script)
 
     def build_module_command(self, env_string, shebang, cmd, arg_path=None):
+        bootstrap_wrapper = pkgutil.get_data("ansible.executor.powershell", "bootstrap_wrapper.ps1")
+
         # pipelining bypass
         if cmd == '':
-            return '-'
+            return self._encode_script(script=bootstrap_wrapper, strict_mode=False, preserve_rc=False)
 
         # non-pipelining
 
         cmd_parts = shlex.split(to_native(cmd), posix=False)
         cmd_parts = list(map(to_text, cmd_parts))
         if shebang and shebang.lower() == '#!powershell':
             if not self._unquote(cmd_parts[0]).lower().endswith('.ps1'):
+                # we're running a module via the bootstrap wrapper
                 cmd_parts[0] = '"%s.ps1"' % self._unquote(cmd_parts[0])
-            cmd_parts.insert(0, '&')
+            wrapper_cmd = "type " + cmd_parts[0] + " | " + self._encode_script(script=bootstrap_wrapper,
+                                                                               strict_mode=False, preserve_rc=False)
+            return wrapper_cmd
         elif shebang and shebang.startswith('#!'):
             cmd_parts.insert(0, shebang[2:])
         elif not shebang:

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 - set_fact:
     become_test_username: ansible_become_test
     become_test_admin_username: ansible_become_admin
-    gen_pw: password123! + {{ lookup('password', '/dev/null chars=ascii_letters,digits length=8') }}
+    gen_pw: "{{ 'password123!' + lookup('password', '/dev/null chars=ascii_letters,digits length=8') }}"
 
 - name: create unprivileged user
   win_user:
@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@
   - SeInteractiveLogonRight
   - SeBatchLogonRight
 
+- name: fetch current target date/time for log filtering
+  raw: '[datetime]::now | Out-String'
+  register: test_starttime
+
 - name: execute tests and ensure that test user is deleted regardless of success/failure
   block:
   - name: ensure current user is not the become user
@@ -219,6 +223,7 @@
     assert:
       that:
       - whoami_out is successful
+      - become_test_username in whoami_out.stdout
     when: os_version.stdout_lines[0] == "async"
 
   - name: test failure with string become invalid key
@@ -320,6 +325,18 @@
       - nonascii_output.stdout_lines[0] == 'über den Fußgängerübergang gehen'
       - nonascii_output.stderr == ''
 
+  - name: get PS events containing password or module args created since test start
+    raw: |
+      $dt=[datetime]"{{ test_starttime.stdout|trim }}"
+      (Get-WinEvent -LogName Microsoft-Windows-Powershell/Operational |
+      ? { $_.TimeCreated -ge $dt -and $_.Message -match "{{ gen_pw }}|whoami" }).Count
+    register: ps_log_count
+
+  - name: assert no PS events contain password or module args
+    assert:
+      that:
+      - ps_log_count.stdout | int == 0
+
 # FUTURE: test raw + script become behavior once they're running under the exec wrapper again
 # FUTURE: add standalone playbook tests to include password prompting and play become keywords