Synopsis

Moderate: [ansible] security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for ansible is now available for Ansible Engine 2.7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

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 (2.7.1)

Security fix(es):

• ansible: Information leak in "user" module (CVE-2018-16837)

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.

Red Hat would like to thank Markus Teufelberger (mgIT Consulting) for
reporting this issue.

Bug Fix(es):

See
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.7.1/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.7.rst for details on bug fixes in this release.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes
described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1640642 - CVE-2018-16837 Ansible: Information leak in "user" module

CVEs

• CVE-2018-16837

References