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RHEL 7 / 8 : Ansible (RHSA-2019:2542)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 128107

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates for Ansible.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 / 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:2542 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.

 The following packages have been upgraded to a newer upstream version: ansible (2.8.4)

 Security fix(es):

 * Ansible: data disclosure when a password from the prompt contains template characters (CVE-2019-10206)
 * Ansible: gcp modules do not flag sensitive data fields properly (CVE-2019-10217)

 For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

 Bug Fix(es):

 For details on bug fixes in this release see:

 https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.8.4/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.8.rst

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.

Solution

Update the RHEL Ansible package based on the guidance in RHSA-2019:2542.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?1a826c43

http://www.nessus.org/u?a9bcc5a1

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2542

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1732623

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1733509

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 128107

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-2542.nasl

Version: 1.10

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/23/2019

Updated: 11/6/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-10217

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ansible, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/21/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/22/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-10206, CVE-2019-10217

CWE: 200, 522

RHSA: 2019:2542