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Recent Red Hat Ansible Security Advisories
Advisory | Title | Published |
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RHSA-2025:3637 | (RHSA-2025:3637) Important: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 Product Security and Bug Fix Update | April 7, 2025 |
RHSA-2025:3636 | (RHSA-2025:3636) Important: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 Product Security and Bug Fix Update | April 7, 2025 |
RHSA-2025:3371 | (RHSA-2025:3371) Important: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1 (openstack-ansible-core) security update | March 27, 2025 |
RHSA-2025:3162 | (RHSA-2025:3162) Important: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 Container Release Update | March 25, 2025 |
RHSA-2025:3160 | (RHSA-2025:3160) Important: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 Product Security and Bug Fix Update | March 25, 2025 |
RHSA-2025:3124 | (RHSA-2025:3124) Important: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 Container Release Update | March 24, 2025 |
RHSA-2025:3123 | (RHSA-2025:3123) Important: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 Product Security and Bug Fix Update | March 24, 2025 |
RHSA-2025:2664 | (RHSA-2025:2664) Important: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Execution Environments Container Release Update | March 11, 2025 |
RHSA-2025:1101 | (RHSA-2025:1101) Important: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Execution Environments Container Release Update | February 5, 2025 |
RHSA-2025:0782 | (RHSA-2025:0782) Moderate: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 Container Release Update | January 28, 2025 |
By the Year
In 2025 there have been 0 vulnerabilities in Red Hat Ansible. Last year, in 2024 Ansible had 2 security vulnerabilities published. Right now, Ansible is on track to have less security vulnerabilities in 2025 than it did last year.
Year | Vulnerabilities | Average Score |
---|---|---|
2025 | 0 | 0.00 |
2024 | 2 | 5.90 |
2023 | 1 | 7.80 |
2022 | 2 | 6.50 |
2021 | 4 | 6.00 |
2020 | 12 | 5.33 |
2019 | 6 | 5.73 |
2018 | 2 | 8.05 |
It may take a day or so for new Ansible vulnerabilities to show up in the stats or in the list of recent security vulnerabilties. Additionally vulnerabilities may be tagged under a different product or component name.
Recent Red Hat Ansible Security Vulnerabilities
Ansible User Module Privilege Escalation
CVE-2024-9902
6.3 - Medium
- November 06, 2024
A flaw was found in Ansible. The ansible-core `user` module can allow an unprivileged user to silently create or replace the contents of any file on any system path and take ownership of it when a privileged user executes the `user` module against the unprivileged user's home directory. If the unprivileged user has traversal permissions on the directory containing the exploited target file, they retain full control over the contents of the file as its owner.
AuthZ
An information disclosure flaw was found in ansible-core due to a failure to respect the ANSIBLE_NO_LOG configuration in some scenarios
CVE-2024-0690
5.5 - Medium
- February 06, 2024
An information disclosure flaw was found in ansible-core due to a failure to respect the ANSIBLE_NO_LOG configuration in some scenarios. Information is still included in the output in certain tasks, such as loop items. Depending on the task, this issue may include sensitive information, such as decrypted secret values.
Output Sanitization
A template injection flaw was found in Ansible where a user's controller internal templating operations may remove the unsafe designation
CVE-2023-5764
7.8 - High
- December 12, 2023
A template injection flaw was found in Ansible where a user's controller internal templating operations may remove the unsafe designation from template data. This issue could allow an attacker to use a specially crafted file to introduce templating injection when supplying templating data.
A flaw was found in Ansible in the amazon.aws collection when using the tower_callback parameter from the amazon.aws.ec2_instance module
CVE-2022-3697
7.5 - High
- October 28, 2022
A flaw was found in Ansible in the amazon.aws collection when using the tower_callback parameter from the amazon.aws.ec2_instance module. This flaw allows an attacker to take advantage of this issue as the module is handling the parameter insecurely, leading to the password leaking in the logs.
A flaw was found in ansible module where credentials are disclosed in the console log by default and not protected by the security feature when using the bitbucket_pipeline_variable module
CVE-2021-20180
5.5 - Medium
- March 16, 2022
A flaw was found in ansible module where credentials are disclosed in the console log by default and not protected by the security feature when using the bitbucket_pipeline_variable module. This flaw allows an attacker to steal bitbucket_pipeline credentials. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.
Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File
A flaw was found in ansible
CVE-2021-20191
5.5 - Medium
- May 26, 2021
A flaw was found in ansible. Credentials, such as secrets, are being disclosed in console log by default and not protected by no_log feature when using those modules. An attacker can take advantage of this information to steal those credentials. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality. Versions before ansible 2.9.18 are affected.
Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File
A flaw was found in ansible module where credentials are disclosed in the console log by default and not protected by the security feature when using the bitbucket_pipeline_variable module
CVE-2021-20178
5.5 - Medium
- May 26, 2021
A flaw was found in ansible module where credentials are disclosed in the console log by default and not protected by the security feature when using the bitbucket_pipeline_variable module. This flaw allows an attacker to steal bitbucket_pipeline credentials. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.
Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File
Ethereum 0xe933c0cd9784414d5f278c114904f5a84b396919#code.sol latest version is affected by a denial of service vulnerability in the affected payout function
CVE-2020-20178
7.5 - High
- May 24, 2021
Ethereum 0xe933c0cd9784414d5f278c114904f5a84b396919#code.sol latest version is affected by a denial of service vulnerability in the affected payout function. Once the length of this array is too long, it will result in an exception. Attackers can make attacks by creating a series of account addresses.
A flaw was found in several ansible modules
CVE-2021-3447
5.5 - Medium
- April 01, 2021
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.
Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File
A flaw was found in Ansible Base when using the aws_ssm connection plugin as garbage collector is not happening after playbook run is completed
CVE-2020-25635
5.5 - Medium
- October 05, 2020
A flaw was found in Ansible Base when using the aws_ssm connection plugin as garbage collector is not happening after playbook run is completed. Files would remain in the bucket exposing the data. This issue affects directly data confidentiality.
Improper Removal of Sensitive Information Before Storage or Transfer
A flaw was found in Ansible Base when using the aws_ssm connection plugin as there is no namespace separation for file transfers
CVE-2020-25636
7.1 - High
- October 05, 2020
A flaw was found in Ansible Base when using the aws_ssm connection plugin as there is no namespace separation for file transfers. Files are written directly to the root bucket, making possible to have collisions when running multiple ansible processes. This issue affects mainly the service availability.
Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties
A flaw was found in the solaris_zone module from the Ansible Community modules
CVE-2019-14904
7.3 - High
- August 26, 2020
A flaw was found in the solaris_zone module from the Ansible Community modules. When setting the name for the zone on the Solaris host, the zone name is checked by listing the process with the 'ps' bare command on the remote machine. An attacker could take advantage of this flaw by crafting the name of the zone and executing arbitrary commands in the remote host. Ansible Engine 2.7.15, 2.8.7, and 2.9.2 as well as previous versions are affected.
Improper Input Validation
An incomplete fix was found for the fix of the flaw CVE-2020-1733 ansible: insecure temporary directory when running become_user
CVE-2020-10744
5 - Medium
- May 15, 2020
An incomplete fix was found for the fix of the flaw CVE-2020-1733 ansible: insecure temporary directory when running become_user from become directive. The provided fix is insufficient to prevent the race condition on systems using ACLs and FUSE filesystems. Ansible Engine 2.7.18, 2.8.12, and 2.9.9 as well as previous versions are affected and Ansible Tower 3.4.5, 3.5.6 and 3.6.4 as well as previous versions are affected.
Race Condition
A flaw was found in Ansible Engine
CVE-2020-10684
7.1 - High
- March 24, 2020
A flaw was found in Ansible Engine, all versions 2.7.x, 2.8.x and 2.9.x prior to 2.7.17, 2.8.9 and 2.9.6 respectively, when using ansible_facts as a subkey of itself and promoting it to a variable when inject is enabled, overwriting the ansible_facts after the clean. An attacker could take advantage of this by altering the ansible_facts, such as ansible_hosts, users and any other key data which would lead into privilege escalation or code injection.
AuthZ
A flaw was found in the Ansible Engine when the fetch module is used
CVE-2020-1735
4.6 - Medium
- March 16, 2020
A flaw was found in the Ansible Engine when the fetch module is used. An attacker could intercept the module, inject a new path, and then choose a new destination path on the controller node. All versions in 2.7.x, 2.8.x and 2.9.x branches are believed to be vulnerable.
Directory traversal
A flaw was found in Ansible Engine when a file is moved using atomic_move primitive as the file mode cannot be specified
CVE-2020-1736
3.3 - Low
- March 16, 2020
A flaw was found in Ansible Engine when a file is moved using atomic_move primitive as the file mode cannot be specified. This sets the destination files world-readable if the destination file does not exist and if the file exists, the file could be changed to have less restrictive permissions before the move. This could lead to the disclosure of sensitive data. All versions in 2.7.x, 2.8.x and 2.9.x branches are believed to be vulnerable.
Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
A flaw was found in Ansible Engine when the module package or service is used and the parameter 'use' is not specified
CVE-2020-1738
3.9 - Low
- March 16, 2020
A flaw was found in Ansible Engine when the module package or service is used and the parameter 'use' is not specified. If a previous task is executed with a malicious user, the module sent can be selected by the attacker using the ansible facts file. All versions in 2.7.x, 2.8.x and 2.9.x branches are believed to be vulnerable.
Argument Injection
A flaw was found in Ansible Engine when using Ansible Vault for editing encrypted files
CVE-2020-1740
4.7 - Medium
- March 16, 2020
A flaw was found in Ansible Engine when using Ansible Vault for editing encrypted files. When a user executes "ansible-vault edit", another user on the same computer can read the old and new secret, as it is created in a temporary file with mkstemp and the returned file descriptor is closed and the method write_data is called to write the existing secret in the file. This method will delete the file before recreating it insecurely. All versions in 2.7.x, 2.8.x and 2.9.x branches are believed to be vulnerable.
Insecure Temporary File
A flaw was found in Ansible 2.7.16 and prior
CVE-2020-1739
3.9 - Low
- March 12, 2020
A flaw was found in Ansible 2.7.16 and prior, 2.8.8 and prior, and 2.9.5 and prior when a password is set with the argument "password" of svn module, it is used on svn command line, disclosing to other users within the same node. An attacker could take advantage by reading the cmdline file from that particular PID on the procfs.
Information Disclosure
A race condition flaw was found in Ansible Engine 2.7.17 and prior
CVE-2020-1733
5 - Medium
- March 11, 2020
A race condition flaw was found in Ansible Engine 2.7.17 and prior, 2.8.9 and prior, 2.9.6 and prior when running a playbook with an unprivileged become user. When Ansible needs to run a module with become user, the temporary directory is created in /var/tmp. This directory is created with "umask 77 && mkdir -p <dir>"; this operation does not fail if the directory already exists and is owned by another user. An attacker could take advantage to gain control of the become user as the target directory can be retrieved by iterating '/proc/<pid>/cmdline'.
Race Condition
Ansible, versions 2.9.x before 2.9.1, 2.8.x before 2.8.7 and Ansible versions 2.7.x before 2.7.15, is not respecting the flag no_log set it to True when Sumologic and Splunk callback plugins are used send tasks results events to collectors
CVE-2019-14864
6.5 - Medium
- January 02, 2020
Ansible, versions 2.9.x before 2.9.1, 2.8.x before 2.8.7 and Ansible versions 2.7.x before 2.7.15, is not respecting the flag no_log set it to True when Sumologic and Splunk callback plugins are used send tasks results events to collectors. This would discloses and collects any sensitive data.
Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File
ansible before versions 2.8.6
CVE-2019-14856
6.5 - Medium
- November 26, 2019
ansible before versions 2.8.6, 2.7.14, 2.6.20 is vulnerable to a None
authentification
A flaw was found in ansible 2.8.0 before 2.8.4
CVE-2019-10217
6.5 - Medium
- November 25, 2019
A flaw was found in ansible 2.8.0 before 2.8.4. Fields managing sensitive data should be set as such by no_log feature. Some of these fields in GCP modules are not set properly. service_account_contents() which is common class for all gcp modules is not setting no_log to True. Any sensitive data managed by that function would be leak as an output when running ansible playbooks.
Information Disclosure
ansible-playbook -k and ansible cli tools, all versions 2.8.x before 2.8.4, all 2.7.x before 2.7.13 and all 2.6.x before 2.6.19, prompt passwords by expanding them
CVE-2019-10206
6.5 - Medium
- November 22, 2019
ansible-playbook -k and ansible cli tools, all versions 2.8.x before 2.8.4, all 2.7.x before 2.7.13 and all 2.6.x before 2.6.19, prompt passwords by expanding them from templates as they could contain special characters. Passwords should be wrapped to prevent templates trigger and exposing them.
Insufficiently Protected Credentials
A flaw was discovered in the way Ansible templating was implemented in versions before 2.6.18
CVE-2019-10156
5.4 - Medium
- July 30, 2019
A flaw was discovered in the way Ansible templating was implemented in versions before 2.6.18, 2.7.12 and 2.8.2, causing the possibility of information disclosure through unexpected variable substitution. By taking advantage of unintended variable substitution the content of any variable may be disclosed.
Information Disclosure
Ansible fetch module before versions 2.5.15, 2.6.14, 2.7.8 has a path traversal vulnerability which
CVE-2019-3828
4.2 - Medium
- March 27, 2019
Ansible fetch module before versions 2.5.15, 2.6.14, 2.7.8 has a path traversal vulnerability which allows copying and overwriting files outside of the specified destination in the local ansible controller host, by not restricting an absolute path.
Directory traversal
ansible before versions 2.5.14, 2.6.11, 2.7.5 is vulnerable to a information disclosure flaw in vvv+ mode with no_log on
CVE-2018-16876
5.3 - Medium
- January 03, 2019
ansible before versions 2.5.14, 2.6.11, 2.7.5 is vulnerable to a information disclosure flaw in vvv+ mode with no_log on that can lead to leakage of sensible data.
Information Disclosure
Ansible before version 2.3 has an input validation vulnerability in the handling of data sent from client systems
CVE-2017-7466
8 - High
- June 22, 2018
Ansible before version 2.3 has an input validation vulnerability in the handling of data sent from client systems. An attacker with control over a client system being managed by Ansible, and the ability to send facts back to the Ansible server, could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code on the Ansible server using the Ansible server privileges.
Improper Input Validation
Ansible before versions 2.1.4, 2.2.1 is vulnerable to an improper input validation in Ansible's handling of data sent from client systems
CVE-2016-9587
8.1 - High
- April 24, 2018
Ansible before versions 2.1.4, 2.2.1 is vulnerable to an improper input validation in Ansible's handling of data sent from client systems. An attacker with control over a client system being managed by Ansible and the ability to send facts back to the Ansible server could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code on the Ansible server using the Ansible server privileges.
Improper Input Validation
A flaw was found in the way Ansible (2.3.x before 2.3.3, and 2.4.x before 2.4.1) passed certain parameters to the jenkins_plugin module
CVE-2017-7550
9.8 - Critical
- November 21, 2017
A flaw was found in the way Ansible (2.3.x before 2.3.3, and 2.4.x before 2.4.1) passed certain parameters to the jenkins_plugin module. Remote attackers could use this flaw to expose sensitive information from a remote host's logs. This flaw was fixed by not allowing passwords to be specified in the "params" argument, and noting this in the module documentation.
Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File
The create_script function in the lxc_container module in Ansible before 1.9.6-1 and 2.x before 2.0.2.0
CVE-2016-3096
7.8 - High
- June 03, 2016
The create_script function in the lxc_container module in Ansible before 1.9.6-1 and 2.x before 2.0.2.0 allows local users to write to arbitrary files or gain privileges via a symlink attack on (1) /opt/.lxc-attach-script, (2) the archived container in the archive_path directory, or the (3) lxc-attach-script.log or (4) lxc-attach-script.err files in the temporary directory.
insecure temporary file
lib/ansible/playbook/__init__.py in Ansible 1.2.x before 1.2.3, when playbook does not run due to an error
CVE-2013-4260
- September 16, 2013
lib/ansible/playbook/__init__.py in Ansible 1.2.x before 1.2.3, when playbook does not run due to an error, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a retry file with a predictable name in /var/tmp/ansible/.
Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
runner/connection_plugins/ssh.py in Ansible before 1.2.3, when using ControlPersist
CVE-2013-4259
- September 16, 2013
runner/connection_plugins/ssh.py in Ansible before 1.2.3, when using ControlPersist, allows local users to redirect a ssh session via a symlink attack on a socket file with a predictable name in /tmp/.
Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls
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