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Red Hat Ansible 2.7 RHSA-2018:3773 Moderate: PowerShell Password Logging

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Calendar Grey December 4, 2018
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat has announced a moderate security and bug fix update for Ansible Engine 2.7. It's crucial to apply these updates promptly to maintain system integrity.
An update for ansible is now available for Ansible Engine 2.7

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, 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 (2.7.4)
Security fix(es):
* ansible: become password logged in plaintext when used with PowerShell on Windows (CVE-2018-16859)
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.
Red Hat would like to thank Igor Turovsky for reporting this issue.
Bug Fix(es):
See https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.7.4/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.7.rst for details on bug fixes in this release.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate red hat bug fix remote execution RHEL 7 ansible

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-16859 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.7 for RHEL 7 Server:
Source: ansible-2.7.4-1.el7ae.src.rpm
noarch: ansible-2.7.4-1.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-2018:3773-01
Product: Red Hat Ansible Engine
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3773
Issue date: 2018-12-04

Topic

An update for ansible is now available for Ansible Engine 2.7.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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate red hat bug fix remote execution RHEL 7 ansible

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.7 for RHEL 7 Server - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1649607 - CVE-2018-16859 ansible: become password logged in plaintext when used with PowerShell on Windows

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