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Debian Security Advisory DSA 4396-1 (ansible - security update)
Information
Severity
Severity
Family
Family
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Base
CVSSv2 Vector
CVSSv2 Vector
Solution Type
Solution Type
Created
Created
Modified
Modified
Summary
Several vulnerabilities have been found in Ansible, a configuration management, deployment, and task execution system: CVE-2018-10855 / CVE-2018-16876 The no_log task flag wasn't honored, resulting in an information leak. CVE-2018-10875 ansible.cfg was read from the current working directory. CVE-2018-16837 The user module leaked parameters passed to ssh-keygen to the process environment. CVE-2019-3828 The fetch module was susceptible to path traversal.
Affected Software
Affected Software
ansible on Debian Linux
Detection Method
Detection Method
This check tests the installed software version using the apt package manager.
Solution
Solution
For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed in version 2.2.1.0-2+deb9u1. We recommend that you upgrade your ansible packages. For the detailed security status of ansible please refer to its security tracker page linked in the references.