RHSA-2019:1708 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for ansible is now available for Ansible Engine 2.8.

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
(2.8.2)

Security fix(es):

• ansible: unsafe template evaluation of returned module data can lead to information disclosure (CVE-2019-10156)

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):

See:
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.8.2/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.8.rst for details on bug fixes in this release.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.8 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.8 for RHEL 8 s390x
• Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.8 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.8 for RHEL 8 aarch64
• Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.8 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.8 for RHEL 7 s390x
• Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.8 for RHEL 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1717311 - CVE-2019-10156 ansible: unsafe template evaluation of returned module data can lead to information disclosure

CVEs

• CVE-2019-10156

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.8.2/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.8.rst