RHSA-2019:2542 - 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 (2.8.4)

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

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 2.8 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 - 1732623 - CVE-2019-10206 Ansible: disclosure data when prompted for password and template characters are passed
• BZ - 1733509 - CVE-2019-10217 Ansible: gcp modules do not flag sensitive data fields properly

CVEs

• CVE-2019-10206
• CVE-2019-10217

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.8.4/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.8.rst