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Red Hat: RHSA-2019-2542-01 Moderate: Ansible Engine Security Fix

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Calendar Grey August 21, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A security patch for Ansible Engine on RHEL has been released, marking a moderate impact, aimed at fixing data leak problems and enhancing system stability.
An update for Ansible is now available for Ansible Engine 2.8

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 (2.8.4)
Security fix(es):
* Ansible: data disclosure when a password from the prompt contains template characters (CVE-2019-10206) * Ansible: gcp modules do not flag sensitive data fields properly (CVE-2019-10217)
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):
For details on bug fixes in this release see:
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.8.4/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.8.rst

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate Red Hat bug fix data disclosure Ansible GCP module

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-10206 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-10217 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.8.4/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.8.rst

Package List

Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.8 for RHEL 7 Server:
Source: ansible-2.8.4-1.el7ae.src.rpm
noarch: ansible-2.8.4-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.8 for RHEL 8:
Source: ansible-2.8.4-1.el8ae.src.rpm
noarch: ansible-2.8.4-1.el8ae.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-2019:2542-01
Product: Red Hat Ansible Engine
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2542
Issue date: 2019-08-21

Topic

An update for Ansible is now available for Ansible Engine 2.8.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 Red Hat bug fix data disclosure Ansible GCP module

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.8 for RHEL 7 Server - noarch

Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.8 for RHEL 8 - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1732623 - CVE-2019-10206 Ansible: disclosure data when prompted for password and template characters are passed

1733509 - CVE-2019-10217 Ansible: gcp modules do not flag sensitive data fields properly

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