The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 / 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:1541 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 (2.9.7)

    Bug Fix(es):
    * CVE-2020-10684 Ansible: code injection when using ansible_facts as a     subkey
    * CVE-2020-10685 Ansible: modules which use files encrypted with vault are     not properly cleaned up
    * CVE-2020-10691 Ansible: archive traversal vulnerability in ansible-galaxy     collection install
    * CVE-2020-1733 ansible: insecure temporary directory when running     become_user from become directive
    * CVE-2020-1735 ansible: path injection on dest parameter in fetch module
    * CVE-2020-1737 ansible: Extract-Zip function in win_unzip module does not     check extracted path
    * CVE-2020-1739 ansible: svn module leaks password when specified as a     parameter
    * CVE-2020-1740 ansible: secrets readable after ansible-vault edit
    * CVE-2020-1746 ansible: Information disclosure issue in ldap_attr and     ldap_entry modules
    * CVE-2020-1753 Ansible: kubectl connection plugin leaks sensitive     information

    See:
    https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.9.7/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.9.rst     for details on bug fixes in this release.

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 / 8 : Ansible security update (2.9.7) (Important) (RHSA-2020:1541)

high Nessus Plugin ID 135911

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Version 1.20 Nov 8, 2024, 5:19 AM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202411080519
Version 1.19 Nov 5, 2024, 12:50 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Reference Plugin Feed: 202411051250
Version 1.18 Mar 15, 2024, 1:33 PM CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C". "CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C") Plugin Feed: 202403151333
Version 1.17 May 25, 2023, 5:09 PM Logic Changes (Added support for ppc64le architecture) Plugin Feed: 202305251709
Version 1.16 Jan 23, 2023, 7:12 PM Logic Changes (Added support for repository relative URLs) Plugin Feed: 202301231912