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Red Hat 7: RHSA-2018-1949-01 Moderate: Ansible Task Security Issue

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Calendar Grey June 19, 2018
Dist Redhat Esm H88
The latest patch for Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.5 deals with several moderate security vulnerabilities alongside various bug resolutions, providing a comprehensive advisory.
An update for ansible is now available for Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.5 for RHEL 7

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

Summary

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 (2.5.5)
Security fix(es):
* ansible: Ansible through version 2.5 does not properly honour the no_log option with failed task iterations. When a list of secret items is supplied to a task and a task iteration fails, secrets can be disclosed in logs despite the no_log option being enabled. (CVE-2018-10855)
Red Hat would like to thank Tobias Henkel (BMW Car IT GmbH) for reporting these issues.
Bug Fix(es):
* Changed the admin_users config option to not include "admin" by default as admin is frequently used for a non-privileged account (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41164)
* aws_s3 - add async support to the action plugin (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/40826)
* aws_s3 - fix decrypting vault files (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/39634)
* ec2_ami - cast the device_mapping volume size to an int (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/40938)
* eos_logging - fix idempotency issues (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/40604)
* cache plugins - a cache timeout of 0 means the cache will not expire.
* ios_logging - fix idempotency issues (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41029)
* ios/nxos/eos_config - don't retrieve config in running_config when config is provided for diff (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41400)
* nxos_banner - fix multiline banner issue (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41026).
* nxos terminal plugin - fix output truncation (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/40960)
* nxos_l3_interface - fix no switchport issue with loopback and svi interfaces (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/37392).
* nxos_snapshot - fix compare_option (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41386)
See https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.5.5/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.5.rst for details on this release.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-10855 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.6 for RHEL 7 Server:
Source: ansible-2.5.5-1.el7ae.src.rpm
noarch: ansible-2.5.5-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm ansible-doc-2.5.5-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key


Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:1949-01
Product: Red Hat Ansible Engine
Issue date: 2018-06-19

Topic

An update for ansible is now available for Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.5 forRHEL 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.6 for RHEL 7 Server - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1588855 - CVE-2018-10855 ansible: Failed tasks do not honour no_log option allowing for secrets to be disclosed in logs

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