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RHEL 7 : ansible (RHSA-2018:3461)

high Nessus Plugin ID 118787

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

An update for ansible is now available for Ansible Engine 2.5.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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 newer upstream version:
ansible (2.5.11)

Security fix(es) :

* ansible: Information leak in 'user' module (CVE-2018-16837)

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 Markus Teufelberger (mgIT Consulting) for reporting this issue.

Solution

Update the affected ansible and / or ansible-doc packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3461

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-16837

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 118787

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-3461.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/7/2018

Updated: 4/14/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.1

Temporal Score: 1.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ansible, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ansible-doc, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/5/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/23/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-16837

RHSA: 2018:3461