RHEL 7 : ansible (RHSA-2018:3835)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 119797

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for ansible.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2018:3835 advisory.

- ansible: Information disclosure in vvv+ mode with no_log on (CVE-2018-16876)

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

Solution

Update the RHEL ansible package based on the guidance in RHSA-2018:3835.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 119797

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2018-3835.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 12/20/2018

Updated: 4/27/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.5

Temporal Score: 2.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-16876

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

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

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: 12/18/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/3/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-16876

CWE: 200

RHSA: 2018:3835

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