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RHEL 7 / 8 : Ansible (RHSA-2019:2543)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 193993
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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-2019:2543 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-2019:2543.See Also
http://www.nessus.org/u?7726c8ad
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
http://www.nessus.org/u?a9bcc5a1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1732623
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 193993
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-2543.nasl
Version: 1.2
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
Published: 4/27/2024
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: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ansible, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, 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: 7/24/2019
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2019-10206, CVE-2019-10217