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Red Hat Ansible Engine 2: RHSA-2019-0430-01 Moderate: Path Traversal

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Calendar Grey February 28, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Cautionary update alert concerning Ansible for Red Hat Engine. Addresses exposure to path traversal vulnerability identified as CVE-2019-3828.
An update for ansible is now available for Ansible Engine 2

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 (2.7.8)
Security fix(es):
* ansible: path traversal in the fetch module (CVE-2019-3828)
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.
Bug Fix(es):
See https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.7.8/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.7.rst for details on bug fixes in this release.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat bug fix moderate severity path traversal ansible fetch module

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-3828 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Ansible Engine 2 for RHEL 7:
Source: ansible-2.7.8-1.el7ae.src.rpm
noarch: ansible-2.7.8-1.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


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:0430-01
Product: Red Hat Ansible Engine
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0430
Issue date: 2019-02-28

Topic

An update for ansible is now available for Ansible Engine 2.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 Red Hat bug fix moderate severity path traversal ansible fetch module

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Ansible Engine 2 for RHEL 7 - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1676689 - CVE-2019-3828 Ansible: path traversal in the fetch module

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