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Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.9.18 Moderate: RHSA-2021:0663-01 Security Advisory

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Calendar Grey February 24, 2021
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A substantial Ansible security patch has been released, rectifying multiple vulnerabilities found in Ansible Engine version 2.9.18.
An update for ansible is now available for Ansible Engine 2 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 (2.9.18)
Bug Fix(es): * CVE-2021-20178 ansible: user data leak in snmp_facts module * CVE-2021-20180 ansible module: bitbucket_pipeline_variable exposes secured values * CVE-2021-20191 ansible: multiple collections exposes secured values * CVE-2021-20228 ansible: basic.py no_log with fallback option
See: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.9.18/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.9.rst for details on bug fixes in this release.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update Red Hat red hat bug fix moderate severity configuration management ansible user data leak Ansible engine secured values

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20178 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20180 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20191 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20228 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Ansible Engine 2 for RHEL 7:
Source: ansible-2.9.18-1.el7ae.src.rpm
noarch: ansible-2.9.18-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm ansible-test-2.9.18-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Ansible Engine 2 for RHEL 8:
Source: ansible-2.9.18-1.el8ae.src.rpm
noarch: ansible-2.9.18-1.el8ae.noarch.rpm ansible-test-2.9.18-1.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-2021:0663-01
Product: Red Hat Ansible Engine
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0663
Issue date: 2021-02-24

Topic

An update for ansible is now available for Ansible Engine 2Red 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 security update Red Hat red hat bug fix moderate severity configuration management ansible user data leak Ansible engine secured values

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Ansible Engine 2 for RHEL 7 - noarch

Red Hat Ansible Engine 2 for RHEL 8 - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1914774 - CVE-2021-20178 ansible: user data leak in snmp_facts module

1915808 - CVE-2021-20180 ansible module: bitbucket_pipeline_variable exposes secured values

1916813 - CVE-2021-20191 ansible: multiple collections exposes secured values

1925002 - CVE-2021-20228 ansible: basic.py no_log with fallback option

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