RHSA-2024:3043 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for ansible-core is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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 radically 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-core: possible information leak in tasks that ignore ANSIBLE_NO_LOG configuration (CVE-2024-0690)

Bug Fix(es):

• Update ansible-core to 2.16.3 (JIRA:RHEL-23782)
• Rebuild ansible-core with python 3.12 (JIRA:RHEL-24141)

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 Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2259013 - CVE-2024-0690 ansible-core: possible information leak in tasks that ignore ANSIBLE_NO_LOG configuration
• RHEL-18965 - Update ansible-core to 2.16.1
• RHEL-19297 - Update ansible-core to 2.16.2
• RHEL-23782 - Update ansible-core to 2.16.3
• RHEL-24141 - Rebuild ansible-core with python 3.12

CVEs

• CVE-2024-0690

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.10_release_notes/index