In ansible it was found that inventory variables are loaded from current working directory when running ad-hoc command which are under attacker's control, allowing to run arbitrary code as a result.

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

  - In ansible it was found that inventory variables are loaded from current working directory when running
    ad-hoc command which are under attacker's control, allowing to run arbitrary code as a result.
    (CVE-2018-10874)

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.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:0054 advisory.

    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.

    Security Fix(es):

    * ansible: Failed tasks do not honour no_log option allowing for secrets to be disclosed in logs     (CVE-2018-10855)

    * ansible: Inventory variables are loaded from current working directory when running ad-hoc command that     can lead to code execution (CVE-2018-10874)

    * ansible: ansible.cfg is being read from current working directory allowing possible code execution     (CVE-2018-10875)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related     information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    Red Hat would like to thank Tobias Henkel (BMW Car IT GmbH) for reporting CVE-2018-10855 and Michael     Scherer (OSAS) for reporting CVE-2018-10874. The CVE-2018-10875 issue was discovered by Brian Coca (Red     Hat).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:2585 advisory.

    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 (2.4.5)

    Security Fix(es):

    * ansible: Failed tasks do not honour no_log option allowing for secrets to be disclosed in logs     (CVE-2018-10855)

    * ansible: Inventory variables are loaded from current working directory when running ad-hoc command that     can lead to code execution (CVE-2018-10874)

    * ansible: ansible.cfg is being read from current working directory allowing possible code execution     (CVE-2018-10875)

    For more details about the security issue, including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other     related information, refer to the CVE page listed in the References section.

    Red Hat would like to thank Tobias Henkel (BMW Car IT GmbH), Brian Coca (Red Hat), and Michael Scherer     (OSAS) for reporting this issue.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4072-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Ansible failed to properly handle sensitive information. A local attacker could use     those vulnerabilities to extract them. (CVE-2017-7481) (CVE-2018-10855) (CVE-2018-16837) (CVE-2018-16876)     (CVE-2019-10156)

    It was discovered that Ansible could load configuration files from the current working directory     containing crafted commands. An attacker could run arbitrary code as result. (CVE-2018-10874)     (CVE-2018-10875)

    It was discovered that Ansible fetch module had a path traversal vulnerability. A local attacker could     copy and overwrite files outside of the specified destination. (CVE-2019-3828)

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

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

Update to ansible 2.6.1 bugfix release. Fixes also 2 CVEs:
CVE-2018-10874 and CVE-2018-10875

See https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.6/changelogs/CHANGELO G-v2.6.rst for full list of 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.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:2321 advisory.

    The redhat-virtualization-host packages provide the Red Hat Virtualization Host. These packages include     redhat-release-virtualization-host, ovirt-node, and rhev-hypervisor. Red Hat Virtualization Hosts (RHVH)     are installed using a special build of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with only the packages required to host     virtual machines. RHVH features a Cockpit user interface for monitoring the host's resources and     performing administrative tasks.

    The ovirt-node-ng packages provide the Red Hat Virtualization Host. These packages include redhat-release-     virtualization-host, ovirt-node, and rhev-hypervisor. Red Hat Virtualization Hosts (RHVH) are installed     using a special build of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with only the packages required to host virtual     machines. RHVH features a Cockpit user interface for monitoring the host's resources and performing     administrative tasks.

    The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: imgbased (1.0.22), redhat-release-     virtualization-host (4.2), redhat-virtualization-host (4.2). (BZ#1596545, BZ#1607722, BZ#1607723)

    Security Fix(es):

    * ansible: Inventory variables are loaded from current working directory when running ad-hoc command that     can lead to code execution (CVE-2018-10874)

    * ansible: ansible.cfg is being read from current working directory allowing possible code execution     (CVE-2018-10875)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related     information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    Red Hat would like to thank Michael Scherer (OSAS) for reporting CVE-2018-10874. The CVE-2018-10875 issue     was discovered by Brian Coca (Red Hat).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:2166 advisory.

    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 (2.6.1)

    Security fix(es):

    * ansible: Inventory variables are loaded from current working directory when running ad-hoc command that     can lead to code execution (CVE-2018-10874)

    * ansible: ansible.cfg is being read from current working directory allowing possible code execution     (CVE-2018-10875)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related     information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    This issue was discovered by Brian Coca (Red Hat), and Michael Scherer (OSAS).

    Bug Fix(es):

    * Fix junos_config confirm commit timeout issue (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41527)

    * file module - The touch subcommand had its diff output broken during the 2.6.x development cycle.  The     patch to fix that broke check mode. This is now fixed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42111)

    * inventory manager - This fixes required options being populated before the inventory config file is     read, so the required options may be set in the config file.

    * nsupdate - allow hmac-sha384 https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42209

    * win_domain - fixes typo in one of the AD cmdlets https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/41536

    * win_group_membership - uses the internal Ansible SID conversion logic and uses that when comparing group     membership instead of the name https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/40649

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:2152 advisory.

    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 (2.4.6)

    Security fix(es):

    * ansible: Inventory variables are loaded from current working directory when running ad-hoc command that     can lead to code execution (CVE-2018-10874)

    * ansible: ansible.cfg is being read from current working directory allowing possible code execution     (CVE-2018-10875)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related     information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    This issue was discovered by Brian Coca (Red Hat), and Michael Scherer (OSAS).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:2151 advisory.

    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 (2.6.1)

    Security fix(es):

    * ansible: Inventory variables are loaded from current working directory when running ad-hoc command that     can lead to code execution (CVE-2018-10874)

    * ansible: ansible.cfg is being read from current working directory allowing possible code execution     (CVE-2018-10875)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related     information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    This issue was discovered by Brian Coca (Red Hat), and Michael Scherer (OSAS).

    Bug Fix(es):

    * Fix junos_config confirm commit timeout issue (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41527)

    * file module - The touch subcommand had its diff output broken during the 2.6.x development cycle.  The     patch to fix that broke check mode. This is now fixed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42111)

    * inventory manager - This fixes required options being populated before the inventory config file is     read, so the required options may be set in the config file.

    * nsupdate - allow hmac-sha384 https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42209

    * win_domain - fixes typo in one of the AD cmdlets https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/41536

    * win_group_membership - uses the internal Ansible SID conversion logic and uses that when comparing group     membership instead of the name https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/40649

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:2150 advisory.

    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 (2.5.6)

    Security fix(es):

    * ansible: Inventory variables are loaded from current working directory when running ad-hoc command that     can lead to code execution (CVE-2018-10874)

    * ansible: ansible.cfg is being read from current working directory allowing possible code execution     (CVE-2018-10875)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related     information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    This issue was discovered by Brian Coca (Red Hat), and Michael Scherer (OSAS).

    Bug Fix(es):

    * Restore module_utils.basic.BOOLEANS variable for backwards compatibility with the module API in older     ansible releases.

    * lineinfile - add warning when using an empty regexp (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/29443)

    * apt - fix apt-mark on debian6 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41530)

    * copy module - fixed recursive copy with relative paths (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/40166)

    * correct debug display for all cases https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41331

    * eos_l2_interface - fix eapi (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42270)

    * group_by - support implicit localhost (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41860)

    * influxdb_query - fixed the use of the common return 'results' caused an unexpected fault. The return is     renamed to 'query_results'

    * junos_config - fix confirm commit timeout issue (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41527)

    * lineinfile - fix insertbefore when used with BOF to not insert duplicate lines     (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/38219)

    * nsupdate - allow hmac-sha384 https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42209

    * nxos_linkagg - fix issue (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41550).

    * nxos_vxlan_vtep_vni - fix issue (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42240)

    * uses correct conn info for reset_connection  https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/27520

    * correct service facts systemd detection of state https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/40809

    * correctly check hostvars for vars term https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41819

    * vyos_vlan - fix aggregate configuration issues (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41638)

    * win_domain - fixes typo in one of the AD cmdlets https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/41536

    * win_iis_webapppool - redirect some module output to null so Ansible can read the output JSON     https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/40874

    * win_updates - Fixed issue where running win_updates on async fails without any error

    * winrm - ensure pexpect is set to not echo the input on a failure and have a manual sanity check     afterwards https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/41865

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
409798	SCA: security update for ansible (GHSA-3xvg-x47j-x75w)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	Local	high
409798	SCA: security update for ansible (GHSA-3xvg-x47j-x75w)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	Local	high
195097	SUSE SLES15: POS_Image-Graphical7 / POS_Image-JeOS7 / ansible / ansible-doc / etc (SUSE-SU-2024:1509-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	critical
194068	RHEL 7 : ansible (RHSA-2019:0054)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	Local	high
194011	RHEL 7 : ansible (RHSA-2018:2585)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	Local	high
127043	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Ansible vulnerabilities (USN-4072-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	Local	critical
120275	Fedora 28 : ansible (2018-1d2bc76093)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	high
111515	RHEL 7 : Red Hat Virtualization (RHSA-2018:2321)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	Local	high
111240	Fedora 27 : ansible (2018-53790a5236)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	Local	high
111030	RHEL 7 : ansible (RHSA-2018:2166)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	Local	high
111028	RHEL 7 : ansible (RHSA-2018:2152)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	Local	high
111027	RHEL 7 : ansible (RHSA-2018:2151)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	Local	high
111026	RHEL 7 : ansible (RHSA-2018:2150)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	Local	high

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