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RedHat: RHSA-2020-2142 Moderate: Ansible Bug Fix for Sensitive Data Leak

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Calendar Grey May 13, 2020
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Red Hat has released a moderate security update for Ansible addressing a vulnerability that may expose confidential data. Users are advised to perform the update promptly.
An update for ansible is now available for Ansible Engine 2.7 Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate

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 (2.7.18)
Bug Fix(es): * CVE-2020-1753 Ansible: kubectl connection plugin leaks sensitive information
See: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.7.18/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.7.rst for details on bug fixes in this release.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate red hat bug fix sensitive information ansible connection plugin

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-1753 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.7 for RHEL 7 Server:
Source: ansible-2.7.18-1.el7ae.src.rpm
noarch: ansible-2.7.18-1.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-2020:2142-01
Product: Red Hat Ansible Engine
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:2142
Issue date: 2020-05-13

Topic

An update for ansible is now available for Ansible Engine 2.7Red 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 sensitive information ansible connection plugin

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.7 for RHEL 7 Server - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1811008 - CVE-2020-1753 Ansible: kubectl connection plugin leaks sensitive information

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