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Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.4 RHSA-2018:2152 Moderate Code Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey July 10, 2018
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Mild security enhancement for Ansible Engine 2.4, tackling vulnerabilities related to code execution. Implement it using the given guidelines.
An update for ansible is now available for Ansible Engine 2.4

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 (2.4.6)
Security fix(es):
* ansible: Inventory variables are loaded from current working directory when running ad-hoc command that can lead to code execution (CVE-2018-10874)
* ansible: ansible.cfg is being read from current working directory allowing possible code execution (CVE-2018-10875)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
This issue was discovered by Brian Coca (Red Hat), and Michael Scherer (OSAS).

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update Red Hat code execution advisory Ansible Engine

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-10874 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-10875 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.4 for RHEL 7 Server:
Source: ansible-2.4.6.0-1.el7ae.src.rpm
noarch: ansible-2.4.6.0-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm ansible-doc-2.4.6.0-1.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-2018:2152-01
Product: Red Hat Ansible Engine
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2152
Issue date: 2018-07-10

Topic

An update for ansible is now available for Ansible Engine 2.4.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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update Red Hat code execution advisory Ansible Engine

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.4 for RHEL 7 Server - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1596528 - CVE-2018-10874 ansible: Inventory variables are loaded from current working directory when running ad-hoc command that can lead to code execution

1596533 - CVE-2018-10875 ansible: ansible.cfg is being read from current working directory allowing possible code execution

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