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.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:2152 advisory.

    Ansible is a simple model-driven configuration management, multi-node deployment, and remote-task     execution system. Ansible works over SSH and does not require any software or daemons to be installed on     remote nodes. Extension modules can be written in any language and are transferred to managed machines     automatically.

    The following packages have been upgraded to a newer upstream version: ansible (2.4.6)

    Security fix(es):

    * ansible: Inventory variables are loaded from current working directory when running ad-hoc command that     can lead to code execution (CVE-2018-10874)

    * ansible: ansible.cfg is being read from current working directory allowing possible code execution     (CVE-2018-10875)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related     information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    This issue was discovered by Brian Coca (Red Hat), and Michael Scherer (OSAS).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:2166 advisory.

    Ansible is a simple model-driven configuration management, multi-node deployment, and remote-task     execution system. Ansible works over SSH and does not require any software or daemons to be installed on     remote nodes. Extension modules can be written in any language and are transferred to managed machines     automatically.

    The following packages have been upgraded to a newer upstream version: ansible (2.6.1)

    Security fix(es):

    * ansible: Inventory variables are loaded from current working directory when running ad-hoc command that     can lead to code execution (CVE-2018-10874)

    * ansible: ansible.cfg is being read from current working directory allowing possible code execution     (CVE-2018-10875)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related     information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    This issue was discovered by Brian Coca (Red Hat), and Michael Scherer (OSAS).

    Bug Fix(es):

    * Fix junos_config confirm commit timeout issue (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41527)

    * file module - The touch subcommand had its diff output broken during the 2.6.x development cycle.  The     patch to fix that broke check mode. This is now fixed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42111)

    * inventory manager - This fixes required options being populated before the inventory config file is     read, so the required options may be set in the config file.

    * nsupdate - allow hmac-sha384 https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42209

    * win_domain - fixes typo in one of the AD cmdlets https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/41536

    * win_group_membership - uses the internal Ansible SID conversion logic and uses that when comparing group     membership instead of the name https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/40649

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2019:0054 advisory.

    Ansible is a simple model-driven configuration management, multi-node deployment, and remote-task     execution system. Ansible works over SSH and does not require any software or daemons to be installed on     remote nodes. Extension modules can be written in any language and are transferred to managed machines     automatically.

    Security Fix(es):

    * ansible: Failed tasks do not honour no_log option allowing for secrets to be disclosed in logs     (CVE-2018-10855)

    * ansible: Inventory variables are loaded from current working directory when running ad-hoc command that     can lead to code execution (CVE-2018-10874)

    * ansible: ansible.cfg is being read from current working directory allowing possible code execution     (CVE-2018-10875)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related     information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    Red Hat would like to thank Tobias Henkel (BMW Car IT GmbH) for reporting CVE-2018-10855 and Michael     Scherer (OSAS) for reporting CVE-2018-10874. The CVE-2018-10875 issue was discovered by Brian Coca (Red     Hat).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:2150 advisory.

    Ansible is a simple model-driven configuration management, multi-node deployment, and remote-task     execution system. Ansible works over SSH and does not require any software or daemons to be installed on     remote nodes. Extension modules can be written in any language and are transferred to managed machines     automatically.

    The following packages have been upgraded to a newer upstream version: ansible (2.5.6)

    Security fix(es):

    * ansible: Inventory variables are loaded from current working directory when running ad-hoc command that     can lead to code execution (CVE-2018-10874)

    * ansible: ansible.cfg is being read from current working directory allowing possible code execution     (CVE-2018-10875)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related     information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    This issue was discovered by Brian Coca (Red Hat), and Michael Scherer (OSAS).

    Bug Fix(es):

    * Restore module_utils.basic.BOOLEANS variable for backwards compatibility with the module API in older     ansible releases.

    * lineinfile - add warning when using an empty regexp (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/29443)

    * apt - fix apt-mark on debian6 (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41530)

    * copy module - fixed recursive copy with relative paths (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/40166)

    * correct debug display for all cases https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41331

    * eos_l2_interface - fix eapi (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42270)

    * group_by - support implicit localhost (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41860)

    * influxdb_query - fixed the use of the common return 'results' caused an unexpected fault. The return is     renamed to 'query_results'

    * junos_config - fix confirm commit timeout issue (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41527)

    * lineinfile - fix insertbefore when used with BOF to not insert duplicate lines     (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/38219)

    * nsupdate - allow hmac-sha384 https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42209

    * nxos_linkagg - fix issue (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41550).

    * nxos_vxlan_vtep_vni - fix issue (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42240)

    * uses correct conn info for reset_connection  https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/27520

    * correct service facts systemd detection of state https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/40809

    * correctly check hostvars for vars term https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41819

    * vyos_vlan - fix aggregate configuration issues (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41638)

    * win_domain - fixes typo in one of the AD cmdlets https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/41536

    * win_iis_webapppool - redirect some module output to null so Ansible can read the output JSON     https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/40874

    * win_updates - Fixed issue where running win_updates on async fails without any error

    * winrm - ensure pexpect is set to not echo the input on a failure and have a manual sanity check     afterwards https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/41865

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:2585 advisory.

    Ansible is a simple model-driven configuration management, multi-node deployment, and remote-task     execution system. Ansible works over SSH and does not require any software or daemons to be installed on     remote nodes. Extension modules can be written in any language and are transferred to managed machines     automatically.

    The following packages have been upgraded to a newer upstream version: ansible (2.4.5)

    Security Fix(es):

    * ansible: Failed tasks do not honour no_log option allowing for secrets to be disclosed in logs     (CVE-2018-10855)

    * ansible: Inventory variables are loaded from current working directory when running ad-hoc command that     can lead to code execution (CVE-2018-10874)

    * ansible: ansible.cfg is being read from current working directory allowing possible code execution     (CVE-2018-10875)

    For more details about the security issue, including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other     related information, refer to the CVE page listed in the References section.

    Red Hat would like to thank Tobias Henkel (BMW Car IT GmbH), Brian Coca (Red Hat), and Michael Scherer     (OSAS) for reporting this issue.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:1509-1 advisory.

  - A flaw was found in Ansible before version 2.2.0. The apt_key module does not properly verify key     fingerprints, allowing remote adversary to create an OpenPGP key which matches the short key ID and inject     this key instead of the correct key. (CVE-2016-8614)

  - Ansible before version 2.2.0 fails to properly sanitize fact variables sent from the Ansible controller.
    An attacker with the ability to create special variables on the controller could execute arbitrary     commands on Ansible clients as the user Ansible runs as. (CVE-2016-8628)

  - An input validation vulnerability was found in Ansible's mysql_user module before 2.2.1.0, which may fail     to correctly change a password in certain circumstances. Thus the previous password would still be active     when it should have been changed. (CVE-2016-8647)

  - Ansible before versions 2.1.4, 2.2.1 is vulnerable to an improper input validation in Ansible's handling     of data sent from client systems. An attacker with control over a client system being managed by Ansible     and the ability to send facts back to the Ansible server could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code on     the Ansible server using the Ansible server privileges. (CVE-2016-9587)

  - A flaw was found in the way Ansible (2.3.x before 2.3.3, and 2.4.x before 2.4.1) passed certain parameters     to the jenkins_plugin module. Remote attackers could use this flaw to expose sensitive information from a     remote host's logs. This flaw was fixed by not allowing passwords to be specified in the params     argument, and noting this in the module documentation. (CVE-2017-7550)

  - In ansible it was found that inventory variables are loaded from current working directory when running     ad-hoc command which are under attacker's control, allowing to run arbitrary code as a result.
    (CVE-2018-10874)

  - An incomplete fix was found for the fix of the flaw CVE-2020-1733 ansible: insecure temporary directory     when running become_user from become directive. The provided fix is insufficient to prevent the race     condition on systems using ACLs and FUSE filesystems. Ansible Engine 2.7.18, 2.8.12, and 2.9.9 as well as     previous versions are affected and Ansible Tower 3.4.5, 3.5.6 and 3.6.4 as well as previous versions are     affected. (CVE-2020-10744)

  - An Improper Output Neutralization for Logs flaw was found in Ansible when using the uri module, where     sensitive data is exposed to content and json output. This flaw allows an attacker to access the logs or     outputs of performed tasks to read keys used in playbooks from other users within the uri module. The     highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality. (CVE-2020-14330)

  - A flaw was found in the Ansible Engine when using module_args. Tasks executed with check mode (--check-     mode) do not properly neutralize sensitive data exposed in the event data. This flaw allows unauthorized     users to read this data. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.
    (CVE-2020-14332)

  - A flaw was found in the Ansible Engine, in ansible-engine 2.8.x before 2.8.15 and ansible-engine 2.9.x     before 2.9.13, when installing packages using the dnf module. GPG signatures are ignored during     installation even when disable_gpg_check is set to False, which is the default behavior. This flaw leads     to malicious packages being installed on the system and arbitrary code executed via package installation     scripts. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to integrity and system availability.
    (CVE-2020-14365)

  - A security flaw was found in Ansible Engine, all Ansible 2.7.x versions prior to 2.7.17, all Ansible 2.8.x     versions prior to 2.8.11 and all Ansible 2.9.x versions prior to 2.9.7, when managing kubernetes using the     k8s module. Sensitive parameters such as passwords and tokens are passed to kubectl from the command line,     not using an environment variable or an input configuration file. This will disclose passwords and tokens     from process list and no_log directive from debug module would not have any effect making these secrets     being disclosed on stdout and log files. (CVE-2020-1753)

  - A template injection flaw was found in Ansible where a user's controller internal templating operations     may remove the unsafe designation from template data. This issue could allow an attacker to use a     specially crafted file to introduce templating injection when supplying templating data. (CVE-2023-5764)

  - A user changing their email after signing up and verifying it can change it without verification in     profile settings. The configuration option verify_email_enabled will only validate email only on sign     up. (CVE-2023-6152)

  - An information disclosure flaw was found in ansible-core due to a failure to respect the ANSIBLE_NO_LOG     configuration in some scenarios. Information is still included in the output in certain tasks, such as     loop items. Depending on the task, this issue may include sensitive information, such as decrypted secret     values. (CVE-2024-0690)

  - It is possible for a user in a different organization from the owner of a snapshot to bypass authorization     and delete a snapshot by issuing a DELETE request to /api/snapshots/<key> using its view key. This     functionality is intended to only be available to individuals with the permission to write/edit to the     snapshot in question, but due to a bug in the authorization logic, deletion requests issued by an     unprivileged user in a different organization than the snapshot owner are treated as authorized. Grafana     Labs would like to thank Ravid Mazon and Jay Chen of Palo Alto Research for discovering and disclosing     this vulnerability. This issue affects Grafana: from 9.5.0 before 9.5.18, from 10.0.0 before 10.0.13, from     10.1.0 before 10.1.9, from 10.2.0 before 10.2.6, from 10.3.0 before 10.3.5. (CVE-2024-1313)

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

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:2321 advisory.

    The redhat-virtualization-host packages provide the Red Hat Virtualization Host. These packages include     redhat-release-virtualization-host, ovirt-node, and rhev-hypervisor. Red Hat Virtualization Hosts (RHVH)     are installed using a special build of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with only the packages required to host     virtual machines. RHVH features a Cockpit user interface for monitoring the host's resources and     performing administrative tasks.

    The ovirt-node-ng packages provide the Red Hat Virtualization Host. These packages include redhat-release-     virtualization-host, ovirt-node, and rhev-hypervisor. Red Hat Virtualization Hosts (RHVH) are installed     using a special build of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with only the packages required to host virtual     machines. RHVH features a Cockpit user interface for monitoring the host's resources and performing     administrative tasks.

    The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: imgbased (1.0.22), redhat-release-     virtualization-host (4.2), redhat-virtualization-host (4.2). (BZ#1596545, BZ#1607722, BZ#1607723)

    Security Fix(es):

    * ansible: Inventory variables are loaded from current working directory when running ad-hoc command that     can lead to code execution (CVE-2018-10874)

    * ansible: ansible.cfg is being read from current working directory allowing possible code execution     (CVE-2018-10875)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related     information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    Red Hat would like to thank Michael Scherer (OSAS) for reporting CVE-2018-10874. The CVE-2018-10875 issue     was discovered by Brian Coca (Red Hat).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:2151 advisory.

    Ansible is a simple model-driven configuration management, multi-node deployment, and remote-task     execution system. Ansible works over SSH and does not require any software or daemons to be installed on     remote nodes. Extension modules can be written in any language and are transferred to managed machines     automatically.

    The following packages have been upgraded to a newer upstream version: ansible (2.6.1)

    Security fix(es):

    * ansible: Inventory variables are loaded from current working directory when running ad-hoc command that     can lead to code execution (CVE-2018-10874)

    * ansible: ansible.cfg is being read from current working directory allowing possible code execution     (CVE-2018-10875)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related     information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    This issue was discovered by Brian Coca (Red Hat), and Michael Scherer (OSAS).

    Bug Fix(es):

    * Fix junos_config confirm commit timeout issue (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/41527)

    * file module - The touch subcommand had its diff output broken during the 2.6.x development cycle.  The     patch to fix that broke check mode. This is now fixed (https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/42111)

    * inventory manager - This fixes required options being populated before the inventory config file is     read, so the required options may be set in the config file.

    * nsupdate - allow hmac-sha384 https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/42209

    * win_domain - fixes typo in one of the AD cmdlets https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/41536

    * win_group_membership - uses the internal Ansible SID conversion logic and uses that when comparing group     membership instead of the name https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/40649

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

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

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-4072-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Ansible failed to properly handle sensitive information. A local attacker could use     those vulnerabilities to extract them. (CVE-2017-7481) (CVE-2018-10855) (CVE-2018-16837) (CVE-2018-16876)     (CVE-2019-10156)

    It was discovered that Ansible could load configuration files from the current working directory     containing crafted commands. An attacker could run arbitrary code as result. (CVE-2018-10874)     (CVE-2018-10875)

    It was discovered that Ansible fetch module had a path traversal vulnerability. A local attacker could     copy and overwrite files outside of the specified destination. (CVE-2019-3828)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Published	Updated	Severity
111240	Fedora 27 : ansible (2018-53790a5236)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	7/24/2018	9/3/2024	high
111028	RHEL 7 : ansible (RHSA-2018:2152)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	7/12/2018	4/15/2025	high
111030	RHEL 7 : ansible (RHSA-2018:2166)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	7/12/2018	9/5/2024	high
194068	RHEL 7 : ansible (RHSA-2019:0054)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	4/27/2024	11/6/2024	high
120275	Fedora 28 : ansible (2018-1d2bc76093)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	1/3/2019	7/8/2024	high
111026	RHEL 7 : ansible (RHSA-2018:2150)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	7/12/2018	9/5/2024	high
194011	RHEL 7 : ansible (RHSA-2018:2585)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	4/27/2024	6/3/2024	high
195097	SUSE SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : SUSE Manager Client Tools (SUSE-SU-2024:1509-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	5/7/2024	5/7/2024	critical
111515	RHEL 7 : Red Hat Virtualization (RHSA-2018:2321)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	8/2/2018	11/5/2024	high
111027	RHEL 7 : ansible (RHSA-2018:2151)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	7/12/2018	9/5/2024	high
127043	Ubuntu 16.04 LTS / 18.04 LTS : Ansible vulnerabilities (USN-4072-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	7/25/2019	8/27/2024	critical

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