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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2021:2663 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2021-07-07
Updated:
2021-07-07

RHSA-2021:2663 - Security Advisory

  • Overview
  • Updated Packages

Synopsis

Important: Ansible security and bug fix update (2.9.23)

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 2.9

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 (2.9.23)

Bug Fix(es):

  • CVE-2021-3583 ansible: Template Injection through yaml multi-line strings

with ansible facts used in template.

See:
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.9.23/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 - 1968412 - CVE-2021-3583 ansible: Template Injection through yaml multi-line strings with ansible facts used in template.

CVEs

  • CVE-2021-3583

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 2.9 for RHEL 8

SRPM
ansible-2.9.23-1.el8ae.src.rpm SHA-256: 9553459f1b48e81f394c78654a9ac43c3a1260fc946cde5371167017739abe8a
x86_64
ansible-2.9.23-1.el8ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 2f0ab03148a2dc2e3997f2da4eb2c9b507649ac4829344939421f2beca9277cb
ansible-test-2.9.23-1.el8ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 1aadfe33b37eab924da32da64d2e56569c71fe32c2d76e7a5fcfdb4a3cf2bee4
s390x
ansible-2.9.23-1.el8ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 2f0ab03148a2dc2e3997f2da4eb2c9b507649ac4829344939421f2beca9277cb
ansible-test-2.9.23-1.el8ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 1aadfe33b37eab924da32da64d2e56569c71fe32c2d76e7a5fcfdb4a3cf2bee4
ppc64le
ansible-2.9.23-1.el8ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 2f0ab03148a2dc2e3997f2da4eb2c9b507649ac4829344939421f2beca9277cb
ansible-test-2.9.23-1.el8ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 1aadfe33b37eab924da32da64d2e56569c71fe32c2d76e7a5fcfdb4a3cf2bee4
aarch64
ansible-2.9.23-1.el8ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 2f0ab03148a2dc2e3997f2da4eb2c9b507649ac4829344939421f2beca9277cb
ansible-test-2.9.23-1.el8ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 1aadfe33b37eab924da32da64d2e56569c71fe32c2d76e7a5fcfdb4a3cf2bee4

Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.9 for RHEL 7

SRPM
ansible-2.9.23-1.el7ae.src.rpm SHA-256: 922a707b7fc61344c5d735db0318c469faea058696d59861ee8b9978babefa5b
x86_64
ansible-2.9.23-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 0f14c6e6b732d00ecc68a428e73b684c21ec4a10944365a1fe12fcf3e002b7f8
ansible-test-2.9.23-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: fc546fa276bf717eb9b0471546db8c6a66a17e997056f6db56833074b08e9d60
s390x
ansible-2.9.23-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 0f14c6e6b732d00ecc68a428e73b684c21ec4a10944365a1fe12fcf3e002b7f8
ansible-test-2.9.23-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: fc546fa276bf717eb9b0471546db8c6a66a17e997056f6db56833074b08e9d60
ppc64le
ansible-2.9.23-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 0f14c6e6b732d00ecc68a428e73b684c21ec4a10944365a1fe12fcf3e002b7f8
ansible-2.9.23-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 0f14c6e6b732d00ecc68a428e73b684c21ec4a10944365a1fe12fcf3e002b7f8
ansible-test-2.9.23-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: fc546fa276bf717eb9b0471546db8c6a66a17e997056f6db56833074b08e9d60
ansible-test-2.9.23-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm SHA-256: fc546fa276bf717eb9b0471546db8c6a66a17e997056f6db56833074b08e9d60

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

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