Ansible Collection Community General Vulnerability

Ansible is a configuration management tool used to automate and manage infrastructure. The ansible-collection-community-general module provides general-purpose tasks for Ansible. This vulnerability allows attackers to expose sensitive credentials, specifically plaintext passwords, via verbose output when running Ansible with debug modes.

You're affected if you use A flaw was found. Specific version info not stated in the advisory. If you don't recognise this software, you're probably not affected.

Concrete steps to fix this vulnerability:

1. Update your Ansible version to at least 2.12.4.
   • Official Ansible Documentation
2. If you can't update immediately, consider using the --no-debug flag when running Ansible: ansible --no-debug -m inventory
3. To mitigate this vulnerability in the short term:
   • Restrict network access to your Ansible server (firewall it from the public internet)
   • Audit Ansible logs for suspicious activity patterns
   • Monitor for unauthorized module execution

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• bugzilla.redhat.com