The remote Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM / 22.04 ESM host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-5315-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Ansible did not properly manage directory permissions when running playbooks with     an unprivileged become user. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a race condition,     escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM, Ubuntu 18.04     ESM and Ubuntu 20.04 ESM. (CVE-2020-1733)

    It was discovered that the fix to address CVE-2020-1733 in Ansible was incomplete on systems using ACLs     and FUSE filesystems. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a race condition, escalate     privileges and execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM, Ubuntu 18.04 ESM and     Ubuntu 20.04 ESM. (CVE-2020-10744)

    It was discovered that Ansible did not properly manage multi-line YAML strings and special template     characters. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a template injection, resulting in the     disclosure of sensitive information or other unspecified impact. (CVE-2021-3583)

    It was discovered that the ansible-connection module in Ansible did not properly manage certain error     messages. A local attacker could possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information. This issue only     affected Ubuntu 20.04 ESM and Ubuntu 22.04 ESM. (CVE-2021-3620)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu 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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Ubuntu 16.04 ESM / 18.04 ESM / 20.04 ESM / 22.04 ESM : Ansible vulnerabilities (USN-5315-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 183136

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Version 1.1 Aug 29, 2024, 4:23 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 Plugin Feed: 202408291623
Version 1.0 Oct 16, 2023, 7:25 PM New Plugin Feed: 202310161925