Topic

An update for ansible is now available for Ansible Engine 2.9

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 (2.9.18)

Bug Fix(es):

• CVE-2021-20178 ansible: user data leak in snmp_facts module
• CVE-2021-20180 ansible module: bitbucket_pipeline_variable exposes

secured values

• CVE-2021-20191 ansible: multiple collections exposes secured values
• CVE-2021-20228 ansible: basic.py no_log with fallback option

See:
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.9.18/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 2.9 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.9 for RHEL 8 s390x
• Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.9 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.9 for RHEL 8 aarch64
• Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.9 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.9 for RHEL 7 s390x
• Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.9 for RHEL 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1914774 - CVE-2021-20178 ansible: user data leak in snmp_facts module
• BZ - 1915808 - CVE-2021-20180 ansible module: bitbucket_pipeline_variable exposes secured values
• BZ - 1916813 - CVE-2021-20191 ansible: multiple collections exposes secured values
• BZ - 1925002 - CVE-2021-20228 ansible: basic.py no_log with fallback option

CVEs

• CVE-2021-20178
• CVE-2021-20180
• CVE-2021-20191
• CVE-2021-20228

References

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