RHEL 7 : ansible (RHSA-2018:1948)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 210306

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for ansible.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:1948 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 (2.5.5)

Security fix(es):

* ansible: Ansible through version 2.5 does not properly honour the no_log option with failed task iterations. When a list of secret items is supplied to a task and a task iteration fails, secrets can be disclosed in logs despite the no_log option being enabled. (CVE-2018-10855)

Red Hat would like to thank Tobias Henkel (BMW Car IT GmbH) for reporting these issues.

Bug Fix(es):

* Changed the admin_users config option to not include admin by default as admin is frequently used for a non-privileged account (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41164)

* aws_s3 - add async support to the action plugin (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/40826)

* aws_s3 - fix decrypting vault files (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39634)

* ec2_ami - cast the device_mapping volume size to an int (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/40938)

* eos_logging - fix idempotency issues (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/40604)

* cache plugins - a cache timeout of 0 means the cache will not expire.

* ios_logging - fix idempotency issues (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41029)

* ios/nxos/eos_config - don't retrieve config in running_config when config is provided for diff (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41400)

* nxos_banner - fix multiline banner issue (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41026).

* nxos terminal plugin - fix output truncation (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/40960)

* nxos_l3_interface - fix no switchport issue with loopback and svi interfaces (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/37392).

* nxos_snapshot - fix compare_option (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41386)

See https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.5.5/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.5.rst for details on 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 this issue 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-2018:1948.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 210306

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-1948.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/5/2024

Updated: 11/5/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.3

Temporal Score: 3.2

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-10855

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ansible-doc, 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 Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/19/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/16/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-10855

CWE: 532

RHSA: 2018:1948

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