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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:1542 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2020-04-22
Updated:
2020-04-22

RHSA-2020:1542 - Security Advisory

  • Overview
  • Updated Packages

Synopsis

Important: Ansible security and bug fix update (2.9.7)

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

View affected systems

Topic

An update for ansible is now available for Ansible Engine 2

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Important. 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 (2.9.7)

Bug Fix(es):

  • CVE-2020-10684 Ansible: code injection when using ansible_facts as a

subkey

  • CVE-2020-10685 Ansible: modules which use files encrypted with vault are

not properly cleaned up

  • CVE-2020-10691 Ansible: archive traversal vulnerability in ansible-galaxy

collection install

  • CVE-2020-1733 ansible: insecure temporary directory when running

become_user from become directive

  • CVE-2020-1735 ansible: path injection on dest parameter in fetch module
  • CVE-2020-1737 ansible: Extract-Zip function in win_unzip module does not

check extracted path

  • CVE-2020-1739 ansible: svn module leaks password when specified as a

parameter

  • CVE-2020-1740 ansible: secrets readable after ansible-vault edit
  • CVE-2020-1746 ansible: Information disclosure issue in ldap_attr and

ldap_entry modules

  • CVE-2020-1753 Ansible: kubectl connection plugin leaks sensitive

information

See:
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.9.7/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.9.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 for RHEL 8 x86_64
  • Red Hat Ansible Engine 2 for RHEL 8 s390x
  • Red Hat Ansible Engine 2 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Ansible Engine 2 for RHEL 8 aarch64
  • Red Hat Ansible Engine 2 for RHEL 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Ansible Engine 2 for RHEL 7 s390x
  • Red Hat Ansible Engine 2 for RHEL 7 ppc64le

Fixes

  • BZ - 1801735 - CVE-2020-1733 ansible: insecure temporary directory when running become_user from become directive
  • BZ - 1802085 - CVE-2020-1735 ansible: path injection on dest parameter in fetch module
  • BZ - 1802154 - CVE-2020-1737 ansible: Extract-Zip function in win_unzip module does not check extracted path
  • BZ - 1802178 - CVE-2020-1739 ansible: svn module leaks password when specified as a parameter
  • BZ - 1802193 - CVE-2020-1740 ansible: secrets readable after ansible-vault edit
  • BZ - 1805491 - CVE-2020-1746 ansible: Information disclosure issue in ldap_attr and ldap_entry modules
  • BZ - 1811008 - CVE-2020-1753 Ansible: kubectl connection plugin leaks sensitive information
  • BZ - 1814627 - CVE-2020-10685 Ansible: modules which use files encrypted with vault are not properly cleaned up
  • BZ - 1815519 - CVE-2020-10684 Ansible: code injection when using ansible_facts as a subkey
  • BZ - 1817161 - CVE-2020-10691 Ansible: archive traversal vulnerability in ansible-galaxy collection install

CVEs

  • CVE-2020-1733
  • CVE-2020-1735
  • CVE-2020-1737
  • CVE-2020-1739
  • CVE-2020-1740
  • CVE-2020-1746
  • CVE-2020-1753
  • CVE-2020-10684
  • CVE-2020-10685
  • CVE-2020-10691

References

  • https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

Red Hat Ansible Engine 2 for RHEL 8

SRPM
ansible-2.9.7-1.el8ae.src.rpm SHA-256: 1c18f593b2570590f055eb88df28d31a47d36e2ee057495dc3761b1628b542c7
x86_64
ansible-2.9.7-1.el8ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 8bfdc41f645bd51c2456ef5798d3d8840d93d4343002957475d0cb8e0fffa0dc
ansible-test-2.9.7-1.el8ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: e7f79e1142767bffb7c41ca5f4086db7190ac587cb6ee981aca9dc9c328377d4
s390x
ansible-2.9.7-1.el8ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 8bfdc41f645bd51c2456ef5798d3d8840d93d4343002957475d0cb8e0fffa0dc
ansible-test-2.9.7-1.el8ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: e7f79e1142767bffb7c41ca5f4086db7190ac587cb6ee981aca9dc9c328377d4
ppc64le
ansible-2.9.7-1.el8ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 8bfdc41f645bd51c2456ef5798d3d8840d93d4343002957475d0cb8e0fffa0dc
ansible-test-2.9.7-1.el8ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: e7f79e1142767bffb7c41ca5f4086db7190ac587cb6ee981aca9dc9c328377d4
aarch64
ansible-2.9.7-1.el8ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 8bfdc41f645bd51c2456ef5798d3d8840d93d4343002957475d0cb8e0fffa0dc
ansible-test-2.9.7-1.el8ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: e7f79e1142767bffb7c41ca5f4086db7190ac587cb6ee981aca9dc9c328377d4

Red Hat Ansible Engine 2 for RHEL 7

SRPM
ansible-2.9.7-1.el7ae.src.rpm SHA-256: 06e8ae809295903ca6238ed4990df171e0fbaafed4c49f62bdfb836464ef0b69
x86_64
ansible-2.9.7-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: d91a2d10998b0220f5a0d979e407c41080ac1931ff82051962cd23c1762f0671
ansible-test-2.9.7-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: d7e0220fd390b936c7e2fc11018c59448de63455486be258f146586159dc11ab
s390x
ansible-2.9.7-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: d91a2d10998b0220f5a0d979e407c41080ac1931ff82051962cd23c1762f0671
ansible-test-2.9.7-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: d7e0220fd390b936c7e2fc11018c59448de63455486be258f146586159dc11ab
ppc64le
ansible-2.9.7-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: d91a2d10998b0220f5a0d979e407c41080ac1931ff82051962cd23c1762f0671
ansible-2.9.7-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: d91a2d10998b0220f5a0d979e407c41080ac1931ff82051962cd23c1762f0671
ansible-test-2.9.7-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: d7e0220fd390b936c7e2fc11018c59448de63455486be258f146586159dc11ab
ansible-test-2.9.7-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: d7e0220fd390b936c7e2fc11018c59448de63455486be258f146586159dc11ab

The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.

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