Issued:
2020-04-22
Updated:
2020-04-22

RHSA-2020:1543 - Important: Ansible security and bug fix update 2.8.11 -

Synopsis

Important: Ansible security and bug fix update (2.8.11)

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

An update for ansible is now available for Ansible Engine 2.8

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

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 (2.8.11)

Bug Fix(es):

  • CVE-2020-10684 Ansible: code injection when using ansible_facts as a subkey
  • CVE-2020-10685 Ansible: modules which use files encrypted with vault are not properly cleaned up
  • CVE-2020-1733 ansible: insecure temporary directory when running become_user from become directive
  • CVE-2020-1735 ansible: path injection on dest parameter in fetch module
  • CVE-2020-1737 ansible: Extract-Zip function in win_unzip module does not check extracted path
  • CVE-2020-1739 ansible: svn module leaks password when specified as a parameter
  • CVE-2020-1740 ansible: secrets readable after ansible-vault edit
  • CVE-2020-1746 ansible: Information disclosure issue in ldap_attr and ldap_entry modules

See: Content from github.com is not included.https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.8.11/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.8.rst for details on bug fixes in this release.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Ansible Engine2.8x86_64
Red Hat Ansible Engine2.8x86_64
Red Hat Ansible Engine2.8s390x
Red Hat Ansible Engine2.8s390x
Red Hat Ansible Engine2.8ppc64le
Red Hat Ansible Engine2.8ppc64le
Red Hat Ansible Engine2.8aarch64

Updated Packages

  • ansible-2.8.11-1.el8ae.src.rpm
  • ansible-2.8.11-1.el8ae.noarch.rpm
  • ansible-2.8.11-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm
  • ansible-2.8.11-1.el7ae.src.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information