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Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.8 Important Security Update RHSA-2020-1543-01

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Calendar Grey April 22, 2020
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A significant upgrade for Ansible Engine 2.8 addresses various security vulnerabilities. Review this for insights on deployment and potential threats.
An update for ansible is now available for Ansible Engine 2.8 Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important

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 (2.8.11)
Bug Fix(es): * CVE-2020-10684 Ansible: code injection when using ansible_facts as a subkey * CVE-2020-10685 Ansible: modules which use files encrypted with vault are not properly cleaned up * CVE-2020-1733 ansible: insecure temporary directory when running become_user from become directive * CVE-2020-1735 ansible: path injection on dest parameter in fetch module * CVE-2020-1737 ansible: Extract-Zip function in win_unzip module does not check extracted path * CVE-2020-1739 ansible: svn module leaks password when specified as a parameter * CVE-2020-1740 ansible: secrets readable after ansible-vault edit * CVE-2020-1746 ansible: Information disclosure issue in ldap_attr and ldap_entry modules
See: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.8.11/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.8.rst for details on bug fixes in this release.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat update bug fix important information disclosure ansible

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-1733 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-1735 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-1737 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-1739 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-1740 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-1746 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-10684 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-10685 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.8 for RHEL 7 Server:
Source: ansible-2.8.11-1.el7ae.src.rpm
noarch: ansible-2.8.11-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.8 for RHEL 8:
Source: ansible-2.8.11-1.el8ae.src.rpm
noarch: ansible-2.8.11-1.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


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:1543-01
Product: Red Hat Ansible Engine
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1543
Issue date: 2020-04-22

Topic

An update for ansible is now available for Ansible Engine 2.8Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat update bug fix important information disclosure ansible

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

1801735 - CVE-2020-1733 ansible: insecure temporary directory when running become_user from become directive

1802085 - CVE-2020-1735 ansible: path injection on dest parameter in fetch module

1802154 - CVE-2020-1737 ansible: Extract-Zip function in win_unzip module does not check extracted path

1802178 - CVE-2020-1739 ansible: svn module leaks password when specified as a parameter

1802193 - CVE-2020-1740 ansible: secrets readable after ansible-vault edit

1805491 - CVE-2020-1746 ansible: Information disclosure issue in ldap_attr and ldap_entry modules

1814627 - CVE-2020-10685 Ansible: modules which use files encrypted with vault are not properly cleaned up

1815519 - CVE-2020-10684 Ansible: code injection when using ansible_facts as a subkey

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