The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2017:1499 advisory.

    Ansible is a simple model-driven configuration management, multi-node deployment, and remote-task     execution system. Ansible works over SSH and does not require any software or daemons to be installed on     remote nodes. Extension modules can be written in any language and are transferred to managed machines     automatically.

    Security Fix(es):

    * An input validation vulnerability was found in Ansible's handling of data sent from client systems. An     attacker with control over a client system being managed by Ansible, and the ability to send facts back to     the Ansible server, could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code on the Ansible server using the Ansible     server privileges. (CVE-2017-7466)

    * An input validation flaw was found in Ansible, where it fails to properly mark lookup-plugin results as     unsafe. If an attacker could control the results of lookup() calls, they could inject Unicode strings to     be parsed by the jinja2 templating system, resulting in code execution. By default, the jinja2 templating     language is now marked as 'unsafe' and is not evaluated. (CVE-2017-7481)

    These issues were discovered by Evgeni Golov (Red Hat).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 7 : ansible (RHSA-2017:1499)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 100980

Version 3.16