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RHSA-2021:1343

Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2021-04-22 21:08 - Updated: 2025-11-21 18:21

Summary

Red Hat Security Advisory: Ansible security update (2.9.20)

Notes

Topic

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.

Details

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 (2.9.20) Bug Fix(es): * CVE-2021-3447 ansible: multiple modules expose secured values See: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.9.20/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.9.rst for details on bug fixes in this release.

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CVE-2021-3447 (GCVE-0-2021-3447)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-04-01 00:00 – Updated: 2024-08-03 16:53

Summary

A flaw was found in several ansible modules, where parameters containing credentials, such as secrets, were being logged in plain-text on managed nodes, as well as being made visible on the controller node when run in verbose mode. These parameters were not protected by the no_log feature. An attacker can take advantage of this information to steal those credentials, provided when they have access to the log files containing them. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality. This flaw affects Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform in versions before 1.2.2 and Ansible Tower in versions before 3.8.2.

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

CWE

CWE-532

Assigner

redhat

References

URL

Tags

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	https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	vendor-advisory
	https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	vendor-advisory
	https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…	vendor-advisory
	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023…	mailing-list

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	n/a	ansible	Affected: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 1.2.2, Ansible Tower 3.8.2

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          "name": "[debian-lts-announce] 20231228 [SECURITY] [DLA 3695-1] ansible security update",
          "tags": [
            "mailing-list"
          ],
          "url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00018.html"
        }
      ]
    }
  },
  "cveMetadata": {
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    "assignerShortName": "redhat",
    "cveId": "CVE-2021-3447",
    "datePublished": "2021-04-01T00:00:00",
    "dateReserved": "2021-03-16T00:00:00",
    "dateUpdated": "2024-08-03T16:53:17.543Z",
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}

Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.

Action not permitted

RHSA-2021:1343

CVE-2021-3447 (GCVE-0-2021-3447)

Tags

Sightings

Nomenclature