RHSA-2019:3744 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for ansible is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 14.0 (Rocky).

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.

Security Fix(es):

• Ansible: path traversal in the fetch module (CVE-2019-3828)
• ansible: unsafe template evaluation of returned module data can lead to information disclosure (CVE-2019-10156)
• Ansible: disclosure data when prompted for password and template characters are passed (CVE-2019-10206)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

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 OpenStack for IBM Power 14 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenStack 14 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenStack Director Deployment Tools 14 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenStack Director Deployment Tools for IBM Power LE 14 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1676689 - CVE-2019-3828 Ansible: path traversal in the fetch module
• BZ - 1717311 - CVE-2019-10156 ansible: unsafe template evaluation of returned module data can lead to information disclosure
• BZ - 1732623 - CVE-2019-10206 Ansible: disclosure data when prompted for password and template characters are passed

CVEs

• CVE-2019-3828
• CVE-2019-10156
• CVE-2019-10206

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate