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RHEL 7 / 8 : Ansible (RHSA-2019:2542)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 128107

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Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 / 8 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:2542 advisory.

 - Ansible: disclosure data when prompted for password and template characters are passed (CVE-2019-10206)

 - Ansible: gcp modules do not flag sensitive data fields properly (CVE-2019-10217)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues 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-2019:2542.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?41bba047

http://www.nessus.org/u?a9bcc5a1

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2542

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1732623

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1733509

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 128107

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2019-2542.nasl

Version: 1.8

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/23/2019

Updated: 5/2/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4

Temporal Score: 3.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-10217

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ansible, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/21/2019

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/22/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-10206, CVE-2019-10217

CWE: 200, 522

RHSA: 2019:2542