PYSEC-2020-1: Medium severity Ansible Ansible Engine vulnerability

Published May 11, 2020
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Updated

A flaw was found in Ansible Engine affecting Ansible Engine versions 2.7.x before 2.7.17 and 2.8.x before 2.8.11 and 2.9.x before 2.9.7 as well as Ansible Tower before and including versions 3.4.5 and 3.5.5 and 3.6.3 when using modules which decrypts vault files such as assemble, script, unarchive, wincopy, awss3 or copy modules. The temporary directory is created in /tmp leaves the s ts unencrypted. On Operating Systems which /tmp is not a tmpfs but part of the root partition, the directory is only cleared on boot and the decryp emains when the host is switched off. The system will be vulnerable when the system is not running. So decrypted data must be cleared as soon as possible and the data which normally is encrypted ble.

Affected Software

2 affected components
Ansible Ansible Engine>=2.7.0<2.7.17, >=2.8.0<2.8.11, >=2.9.0<2.9.7
Ansible Ansible Tower<=3.4.5, <=3.5.5, <=3.6.3

Remediation

Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.

  1. Upgrade

    Upgrade Ansible Engine to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 2.7.17
  2. Upgrade

    Upgrade Ansible Engine to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 2.8.11
  3. Upgrade

    Upgrade Ansible Engine to a version that resolves this vulnerability.

    Fixed in 2.9.7
  4. Operational

    Clear decrypted data from /tmp as soon as possible, particularly before the host is switched off.

Event History

May 11, 2020
CVE Published
via OSV·02:15 PM
Data Sourced
via OSV·02:15 PM
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