[RHSA-2021:0664-01] Moderate: Ansible security and bug fix update (2.9.18)

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                   Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis:          Moderate: Ansible security and bug fix update (2.9.18)
Advisory ID:       RHSA-2021:0664-01
Product:           Red Hat Ansible Engine
Advisory URL:      https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0664
Issue date:        2021-02-24
CVE Names:         CVE-2021-20178 CVE-2021-20180 CVE-2021-20191 
                   CVE-2021-20228 
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1. Summary:

An update for ansible is now available for Ansible Engine 2.9

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.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.9 for RHEL 7 Server - noarch
Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.9 for RHEL 8 - noarch

3. 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 (2.9.18)

Bug Fix(es):
* CVE-2021-20178 ansible: user data leak in snmp_facts module
* CVE-2021-20180 ansible module: bitbucket_pipeline_variable exposes
secured values
* CVE-2021-20191 ansible: multiple collections exposes secured values
* CVE-2021-20228 ansible: basic.py no_log with fallback option

See:
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.9.18/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.9.r
st
for details on bug fixes in this release.

4. 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

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1914774 - CVE-2021-20178 ansible: user data leak in snmp_facts module
1915808 - CVE-2021-20180 ansible module: bitbucket_pipeline_variable exposes secured values
1916813 - CVE-2021-20191 ansible: multiple collections exposes secured values
1925002 - CVE-2021-20228 ansible: basic.py no_log with fallback option

6. Package List:

Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.9 for RHEL 7 Server:

Source:
ansible-2.9.18-1.el7ae.src.rpm

noarch:
ansible-2.9.18-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm
ansible-test-2.9.18-1.el7ae.noarch.rpm

Red Hat Ansible Engine 2.9 for RHEL 8:

Source:
ansible-2.9.18-1.el8ae.src.rpm

noarch:
ansible-2.9.18-1.el8ae.noarch.rpm
ansible-test-2.9.18-1.el8ae.noarch.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security.  Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/

7. References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20178
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20180
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20191
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20228
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

8. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is <secalert at redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

Copyright 2021 Red Hat, Inc.
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