| Description: | Summary:
The remote host is missing an update for the Debian 'ansible' package(s) announced via the DLA-1923-1 advisory.
Vulnerability Insight:
Several vulnerabilities were discovered in Ansible, a configuration management, deployment, and task execution system.
CVE-2015-3908
A potential man-in-the-middle attack associated with insusfficient X.509 certificate verification. Ansible did not verify that the server hostname matches a domain name in the subject's Common Name (CN) or subjectAltName field of the X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof SSL servers via an arbitrary valid certificate.
CVE-2015-6240
A symlink attack that allows local users to escape a restricted environment (chroot or jail) via a symlink attack.
CVE-2018-10875
A fix potential arbitrary code execution resulting from reading ansible.cfg from a world-writable current working directory. This condition now causes ansible to emit a warning and ignore the ansible.cfg in the world-writable current working directory.
CVE-2019-10156
Information disclosure through unexpected variable substitution.
For Debian 8 Jessie, these problems have been fixed in version 1.7.2+dfsg-2+deb8u2.
We recommend that you upgrade your ansible packages.
Further information about Debian LTS security advisories, how to apply these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be found at: [link moved to references]
Affected Software/OS:
'ansible' package(s) on Debian 8.
Solution:
Please install the updated package(s).
CVSS Score:
7.2
CVSS Vector:
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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