[USN-5315-1] Ansible vulnerabilities

Severity High

Affected Packages 7

CVEs 4

Several security issues were fixed in Ansible.

It was discovered that Ansible did not properly manage directory
permissions when running playbooks with an unprivileged become user. A
local attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a race condition,
escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected
Ubuntu 16.04 ESM, Ubuntu 18.04 ESM and Ubuntu 20.04 ESM. (CVE-2020-1733)

It was discovered that the fix to address CVE-2020-1733 in Ansible was
incomplete on systems using ACLs and FUSE filesystems. A local attacker
could possibly use this issue to cause a race condition, escalate
privileges and execute arbitrary code. This issue only affected
Ubuntu 16.04 ESM, Ubuntu 18.04 ESM and Ubuntu 20.04 ESM. (CVE-2020-10744)

It was discovered that Ansible did not properly manage multi-line YAML
strings and special template characters. A local attacker could possibly
use this issue to cause a template injection, resulting in the
disclosure of sensitive information or other unspecified impact.
(CVE-2021-3583)

It was discovered that the ansible-connection module in Ansible did
not properly manage certain error messages. A local attacker could
possibly use this issue to expose sensitive information. This issue
only affected Ubuntu 20.04 ESM and Ubuntu 22.04 ESM. (CVE-2021-3620)

Package	Affected Version
pkg:deb/ubuntu/ansible?distro=xenial	< 2.0.0.2-2ubuntu1.3+esm1
pkg:deb/ubuntu/ansible?distro=jammy	< 2.10.7+merged+base+2.10.8+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
pkg:deb/ubuntu/ansible?distro=focal	< 2.9.6+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm1
pkg:deb/ubuntu/ansible?distro=bionic	< 2.5.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1+esm1
pkg:deb/ubuntu/ansible-node-fireball?distro=xenial	< 2.0.0.2-2ubuntu1.3+esm1
pkg:deb/ubuntu/ansible-fireball?distro=xenial	< 2.0.0.2-2ubuntu1.3+esm1
pkg:deb/ubuntu/ansible-doc?distro=focal	< 2.9.6+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm1

ID

USN-5315-1

Severity

high

Severity from

CVE-2021-3583

URL

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-5315-1

Published

2022-06-07T14:43:08
(2 years ago)

Modified

2022-06-07T14:43:08
(2 years ago)

Other Advisories

Type	Package URL	Namespace	Name / Product	Version	Distribution / Platform
Affected	pkg:deb/ubuntu/ansible?distro=xenial	ubuntu	ansible	< 2.0.0.2-2ubuntu1.3+esm1	xenial
Affected	pkg:deb/ubuntu/ansible?distro=jammy	ubuntu	ansible	< 2.10.7+merged+base+2.10.8+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm1	jammy
Affected	pkg:deb/ubuntu/ansible?distro=focal	ubuntu	ansible	< 2.9.6+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm1	focal
Affected	pkg:deb/ubuntu/ansible?distro=bionic	ubuntu	ansible	< 2.5.1+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1+esm1	bionic
Affected	pkg:deb/ubuntu/ansible-node-fireball?distro=xenial	ubuntu	ansible-node-fireball	< 2.0.0.2-2ubuntu1.3+esm1	xenial
Affected	pkg:deb/ubuntu/ansible-fireball?distro=xenial	ubuntu	ansible-fireball	< 2.0.0.2-2ubuntu1.3+esm1	xenial
Affected	pkg:deb/ubuntu/ansible-doc?distro=focal	ubuntu	ansible-doc	< 2.9.6+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm1	focal

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