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Debian DSA-4396-1 : ansible - security update

2019-02-2000:00:00
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4.6 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

7.8 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

6.8 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.003 Low

EPSS

Percentile

71.9%

Several vulnerabilities have been found in Ansible, a configuration management, deployment, and task execution system :

  • CVE-2018-10855/ CVE-2018-16876 The no_log task flag wasn’t honored, resulting in an information leak.

  • CVE-2018-10875 ansible.cfg was read from the current working directory.

  • CVE-2018-16837 The user module leaked parameters passed to ssh-keygen to the process environment.

  • CVE-2019-3828 The fetch module was susceptible to path traversal.

#
# (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc.
#
# The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were  
# extracted from Debian Security Advisory DSA-4396. The text 
# itself is copyright (C) Software in the Public Interest, Inc.
#

include('compat.inc');

if (description)
{
  script_id(122321);
  script_version("1.6");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2024/06/19");

  script_cve_id(
    "CVE-2018-10855",
    "CVE-2018-10875",
    "CVE-2018-16837",
    "CVE-2018-16876",
    "CVE-2019-3828"
  );
  script_xref(name:"DSA", value:"4396");

  script_name(english:"Debian DSA-4396-1 : ansible - security update");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"synopsis", value:
"The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"description", value:
"Several vulnerabilities have been found in Ansible, a configuration
management, deployment, and task execution system :

  - CVE-2018-10855/ CVE-2018-16876
    The no_log task flag wasn't honored, resulting in an
    information leak.

  - CVE-2018-10875
    ansible.cfg was read from the current working directory.

  - CVE-2018-16837
    The user module leaked parameters passed to ssh-keygen
    to the process environment.

  - CVE-2019-3828
    The fetch module was susceptible to path traversal.");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-10855");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-16876");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-10875");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-16837");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2019-3828");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/source-package/ansible");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://packages.debian.org/source/stretch/ansible");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.debian.org/security/2019/dsa-4396");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:
"Upgrade the ansible packages.

For the stable distribution (stretch), these problems have been fixed
in version 2.2.1.0-2+deb9u1.");
  script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P");
  script_set_cvss_temporal_vector("CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C");
  script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H");
  script_set_cvss3_temporal_vector("CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss_score_source", value:"CVE-2018-10875");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cvss3_score_source", value:"CVE-2018-16837");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploitability_ease", value:"Exploits are available");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"exploit_available", value:"true");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2018/07/03");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2019/02/19");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2019/02/20");

  script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ansible");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0");
  script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current");
  script_end_attributes();

  script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO);
  script_family(english:"Debian Local Security Checks");

  script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2019-2024 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof.");

  script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl");
  script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/Debian/release", "Host/Debian/dpkg-l");

  exit(0);
}


include("audit.inc");
include("debian_package.inc");


if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED);
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Debian");
if (!get_kb_item("Host/Debian/dpkg-l")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING);


flag = 0;
if (deb_check(release:"9.0", prefix:"ansible", reference:"2.2.1.0-2+deb9u1")) flag++;

if (flag)
{
  if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:deb_report_get());
  else security_warning(0);
  exit(0);
}
else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
VendorProductVersionCPE
debiandebian_linux9.0cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:9.0
debiandebian_linuxansiblep-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:ansible

4.6 Medium

CVSS2

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Authentication

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

PARTIAL

Integrity Impact

PARTIAL

Availability Impact

PARTIAL

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

7.8 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

6.8 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

Low

0.003 Low

EPSS

Percentile

71.9%