Issued:
2020-05-13
Updated:
2020-05-13

RHSA-2020:2142 - Moderate: Ansible security and bug fix update 2.7.18 -

Synopsis

Moderate: Ansible security and bug fix update (2.7.18)

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

An update for ansible is now available for Ansible Engine 2.7

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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 (2.7.18)

Bug Fix(es):

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

See: Content from github.com is not included.https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.7.18/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.7.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 Engine2.7x86_64
Red Hat Ansible Engine2.7ppc64le

Updated Packages

  • ansible-2.7.18-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm
  • ansible-2.7.18-1.el7ae.src.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information