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Mageia: 2021-0420 Critical Security Advisory for Ansible Risks

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Calendar Grey September 23, 2021
Dist Mageia Esm H88
MGASA-2021-0421 tackles potential vulnerabilities related to system integrity and user management, delivering patches for Mageia packages.
A flaw was found in several ansible modules, where parameters containing credentials, such as secrets, were being logged in plain-text on managed nodes, as well as being made visib...

Summary

A flaw was found in several ansible modules, where parameters containing credentials, such as secrets, were being logged in plain-text on managed nodes, as well as being made visible on the controller node when run in verbose mode.
These parameters were not protected by the no_log feature. An attacker can take advantage of this information to steal those credentials, provided when they have access to the log files containing them. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality. This flaw affects Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform in versions before 1.2.2 and Ansible Tower in versions before 3.8.2 (CVE-2021-3447).
A flaw was found in Ansible, where a user's controller is vulnerable to template injection. This issue can occur through facts used in the template if the user is trying to put templates in multi-line YAML strings and the facts being handled do not routinely include special template characters. This flaw allows attackers to perform command injection,...

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References

- https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28832

- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1342

- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:2664

- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.9.24/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.9.rst

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-3447

- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-3583

Resolution

SRPMS

- 8/core/ansible-2.9.24-1.mga8

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Publication date: 23 Sep 2021
URL: https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2021-0420.html
Type: security
CVE: CVE-2021-3447, CVE-2021-3583

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