An input validation vulnerability was found in Ansible's mysql_user module before 2.2.1.0, which may fail to correctly change a password in certain circumstances. Thus the previous password would still be active when it should have been changed.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - An input validation vulnerability was found in Ansible's mysql_user module before 2.2.1.0, which may fail
    to correctly change a password in certain circumstances. Thus the previous password would still be active
    when it should have been changed. (CVE-2016-8647)

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:1509-1 advisory.

    POS_Image-Graphical7 was updated to version 0.1.1710765237.46af599:

    - Version 0.1.1710765237.46af599

      * Moved image services to dracut-saltboot package
      * Use salt bundle

    - Version 0.1.1645440615.7f1328c

      * Removed deprecated kiwi functions

    POS_Image-JeOS7 was updated to version 0.1.1710765237.46af599:

    - Version 0.1.1710765237.46af599

      * Moved image services to dracut-saltboot package
      * Use salt bundle

    - Version 0.1.1645440615.7f1328c

      * Removed deprecated kiwi functions

    ansible received the following fixes:

    - Security issues fixed:

      * CVE-2023-5764: Address issues where internal templating can cause unsafe         variables to lose their unsafe designation (bsc#1216854)

        - Breaking changes:
          assert - Nested templating may result in an inability for the conditional           to be evaluated. See the porting guide for more information.

      * CVE-2024-0690: Address issue where ANSIBLE_NO_LOG was ignored (bsc#1219002)
      * CVE-2020-14365: Ensure that packages are GPG validated (bsc#1175993)
      * CVE-2020-10744: Fixed insecure temporary directory creation (bsc#1171823)
      * CVE-2018-10874: Fixed inventory variables loading from current working directory when running ad-hoc     command that         can lead to code execution (bsc#1099805)

    - Bugs fixed:

      * Don't Require python-coverage, it is needed only for testing (bsc#1177948)

    dracut-saltboot was updated to version 0.1.1710765237.46af599:

    - Version 0.1.1710765237.46af599

      * Load only first available leaseinfo (bsc#1221092)

    - Version 0.1.1681904360.84ef141

    grafana was updated to version 9.5.18:

    - Grafana now requires Go 1.20
    - Security issues fixed:

      * CVE-2024-1313: Require same organisation when deleting snapshots (bsc#1222155)
      * CVE-2023-6152: Add email verification when updating user email (bsc#1219912)

    - Other non-security related changes:

      * Version 9.5.17:

        - [FEATURE] Alerting: Backport use Alertmanager API v2

      * Version 9.5.16:

        - [BUGFIX] Annotations: Split cleanup into separate queries and           deletes to avoid deadlocks on MySQL

      * Version 9.5.15:

        - [FEATURE] Alerting: Attempt to retry retryable errors

      * Version 9.5.14:

        - [BUGFIX] Alerting: Fix state manager to not keep           datasource_uid and ref_id labels in state after Error
        - [BUGFIX] Transformations: Config overrides being lost when           config from query transform is applied
        - [BUGFIX] LDAP: Fix enable users on successfull login

      * Version 9.5.13:

        - [BUGFIX] BrowseDashboards: Only remember the most recent           expanded folder
        - [BUGFIX] Licensing: Pass func to update env variables when           starting plugin

      * Version 9.5.12:

        - [FEATURE] Azure: Add support for Workload Identity           authentication

      * Version 9.5.9:

        - [FEATURE] SSE: Fix DSNode to not panic when response has empty           response
        - [FEATURE] Prometheus: Handle the response with different field           key order
        - [BUGFIX] LDAP: Fix user disabling

    mgr-daemon was updated to version 4.3.9-0:

    - Version 4.3.9-0

      * Update translation strings

    spacecmd was updated to version 4.3.27-0:

    - Version 4.3.27-0

      * Update translation strings

    spacewalk-client-tools was updated to version 4.3.19-0:

    - Version 4.3.19-0

      * Update translation strings

    spacewalk-koan was updated to version version 4.3.6-0:

    - Version 4.3.6-0

      * Change Docker image location for test

    uyuni-common-libs was updated to version 4.3.10-0:

    - Version 4.3.10-0

      * Add support for package signature type V4 RSA/SHA384
      * Add support for package signature type V4 RSA/SHA512 (bsc#1221465)

    uyuni-proxy-systemd-services was updated to version 4.3.12-0:

    - Version 4.3.12-0

      * Update to SUSE Manager 4.3.12

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

An update for ansible is now available for RHEV Engine version 4.1.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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 later upstream version:
ansible (2.3.0.0). (BZ#1446527)

Security Fix(es) :

* An input validation vulnerability was found in Ansible's handling of data sent from client systems. An attacker with control over a client system being managed by Ansible and the ability to send facts back to the Ansible server could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code on the Ansible server using the Ansible server privileges.
(CVE-2016-9587)

* An input validation vulnerability was found in Ansible's handling of data sent from client systems. An attacker with control over a client system being managed by Ansible, and the ability to send facts back to the Ansible server, could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code on the Ansible server using the Ansible server privileges.
(CVE-2017-7466)

* An input validation vulnerability was found in Ansible's mysql_user module which may fail to correctly change a password in certain circumstances. Thus the previous password would still be active when it should have been changed. (CVE-2016-8647)

The CVE-2017-7466 issue was discovered by Evgeni Golov (Red Hat).

Update to ansible 2.2.1. Fixes several CVEs as well as a number of other bugfixes. 

See: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.2/CHANGELOG.md for full changes.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
423346	SCA: security update for ansible (GHSA-x4cm-m36h-c6qj)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	medium
423346	SCA: security update for ansible (GHSA-x4cm-m36h-c6qj)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	medium
195097	SUSE SLES15: POS_Image-Graphical7 / POS_Image-JeOS7 / ansible / ansible-doc / etc (SUSE-SU-2024:1509-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	critical
112261	RHEL 7 : ansible (RHSA-2017:1685)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
96785	Fedora 25 : ansible (2017-cb88734094)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
96783	Fedora 24 : ansible (2017-418398ce60)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2016-8647

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Tenable Plugins

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