RHEL 7 / 8 : Ansible security and bug fix update (2.9.7) (Important) (RHSA-2020:1541)

high Nessus Plugin ID 135911

Synopsis

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

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 / 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:1541 advisory.

- Ansible: code injection when using ansible_facts as a subkey (CVE-2020-10684)

- Ansible: modules which use files encrypted with vault are not properly cleaned up (CVE-2020-10685)

- Ansible: archive traversal vulnerability in ansible-galaxy collection install (CVE-2020-10691)

- ansible: insecure temporary directory when running become_user from become directive (CVE-2020-1733)

- ansible: path injection on dest parameter in fetch module (CVE-2020-1735)

- ansible: Extract-Zip function in win_unzip module does not check extracted path (CVE-2020-1737)

- ansible: svn module leaks password when specified as a parameter (CVE-2020-1739)

- ansible: secrets readable after ansible-vault edit (CVE-2020-1740)

- ansible: Information disclosure issue in ldap_attr and ldap_entry modules (CVE-2020-1746)

- Ansible: kubectl connection plugin leaks sensitive information (CVE-2020-1753)

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 affected ansible and / or ansible-test packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-1733

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-1735

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-1737

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-1739

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-1740

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-1746

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-1753

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-10684

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-10685

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-10691

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1541

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1801735

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1802085

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1802154

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1802178

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1802193

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1805491

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1811008

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1814627

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1815519

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1817161

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 135911

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-1541.nasl

Version: 1.18

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/22/2020

Updated: 3/15/2024

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: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.6

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-1737

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

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

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: 4/22/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/19/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-10684, CVE-2020-10685, CVE-2020-10691, CVE-2020-1733, CVE-2020-1735, CVE-2020-1737, CVE-2020-1739, CVE-2020-1740, CVE-2020-1746, CVE-2020-1753

CWE: 200, 214, 22, 377, 459, 532, 862

IAVB: 2019-B-0092-S, 2020-B-0016-S

RHSA: 2020:1541