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Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.9 RHSA-2021-2663 Important: Template Injection

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Calendar Grey July 7, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Ansible Engine 2.9 receives a security and bug fix patch, correcting issues related to template injection vulnerabilities. Red Hat assigns a moderate impact rating to this update.
An update for ansible is now available for Ansible Engine 2.9 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 (2.9.23)
Bug Fix(es): * CVE-2021-3583 ansible: Template Injection through yaml multi-line strings with ansible facts used in template.
See: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.9.23/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.9.rst for details on bug fixes in this release.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat bug fix moderate severity ansible template injection

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3583 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.9 for RHEL 7 Server:
Source: ansible-2.9.23-1.el7ae.src.rpm
noarch: ansible-2.9.23-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm ansible-test-2.9.23-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.9 for RHEL 8:
Source: ansible-2.9.23-1.el8ae.src.rpm
noarch: ansible-2.9.23-1.el8ae.noarch.rpm ansible-test-2.9.23-1.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-2021:2663-01
Product: Red Hat Ansible Engine
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:2663
Issue date: 2021-07-07

Topic

An update for ansible is now available for Ansible Engine 2.9Red 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 Red Hat bug fix moderate severity ansible template injection

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.9 for RHEL 7 Server - noarch

Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.9 for RHEL 8 - noarch

Bugs Fixed

1968412 - CVE-2021-3583 ansible: Template Injection through yaml multi-line strings with ansible facts used in template.

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