Moderate: ansible security update

Synopsis

Moderate: ansible security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for ansible is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 (Queens) for RHEL 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.

Security Fix(es):

• ansible: secrets disclosed on logs when no_log enabled (CVE-2019-14846)
  
• ansible: Incomplete fix for CVE-2019-10206 (CVE-2019-14856)
  
• ansible: sub parameters marked as no_log are not masked in certain failure scenarios (CVE-2019-14858)
  

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

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

• Red Hat OpenStack 13 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenStack for IBM Power 13 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenStack Director Deployment Tools 13 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenStack Director Deployment Tools for IBM Power LE 13 ppc64le
• Red Hat OpenStack - Extended Update Support 13 for RHEL 7.6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1755373 - CVE-2019-14846 ansible: secrets disclosed on logs when no_log enabled
• BZ - 1760593 - CVE-2019-14858 ansible: sub parameters marked as no_log are not masked in certain failure scenarios
• BZ - 1760829 - CVE-2019-14856 ansible: Incomplete fix for CVE-2019-10206

CVEs

• CVE-2019-14846
• CVE-2019-14856
• CVE-2019-14858

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate