The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 / 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:1542 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.

Detections

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RHEL 7 / 8 : Ansible security and bug fix update (2.9.7) (Important) (RHSA-2020:1542)

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