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Fedora 28 : ansible (2018-1d2bc76093)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 120275

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Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing a security update.

Description

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.

Solution

Update the affected ansible package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2018-1d2bc76093

http://www.nessus.org/u?bcd9b701

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 120275

File Name: fedora_2018-1d2bc76093.nasl

Version: 1.5

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/3/2019

Updated: 1/6/2021

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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:fedoraproject:fedora:ansible, cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:28

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

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/12/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/2/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-10874, CVE-2018-10875