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Debian: Security Advisory for ansible (DSA-4950-1)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Debian Local Security Checks

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

6.6

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:C

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

2 years ago

Modified

Modified

2 years ago

Summary

The remote host is missing an update for the 'ansible' package(s) announced via the DSA-4950-1 advisory.

Insight

Insight

Several vulnerabilities have been found in Ansible, a configuration management, deployment and task execution system, which could result in information disclosure or argument injection. In addition a race condition in become_user was fixed.

Affected Software

Affected Software

'ansible' package(s) on Debian Linux.

Detection Method

Detection Method

Checks if a vulnerable package version is present on the target host.

Solution

Solution

For the stable distribution (buster), these problems have been fixed in version 2.7.7+dfsg-1+deb10u1. We recommend that you upgrade your ansible packages.