Vulnerabilities > CVE-2013-2233 - Key Management Errors vulnerability in Redhat Ansible
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
HIGH Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
NONE Summary
Ansible before 1.2.1 makes it easier for remote attackers to conduct man-in-the-middle attacks by leveraging failure to cache SSH host keys.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family FreeBSD Local Security Checks NASL id FREEBSD_PKG_A478421E205911E5A4A5002590263BF5.NASL description Ansible changelog reports : Host key checking is on by default. Disable it if you like by adding host_key_checking=False in the [default] section of /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg or ~/ansible.cfg or by exporting ANSIBLE_HOST_KEY_CHECKING=False. last seen 2020-06-01 modified 2020-06-02 plugin id 84526 published 2015-07-06 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/84526 title FreeBSD : ansible -- enable host key checking in paramiko connection type (a478421e-2059-11e5-a4a5-002590263bf5) code # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from the FreeBSD VuXML database : # # Copyright 2003-2018 Jacques Vidrine and contributors # # Redistribution and use in source (VuXML) and 'compiled' forms (SGML, # HTML, PDF, PostScript, RTF and so forth) with or without modification, # are permitted provided that the following conditions are met: # 1. Redistributions of source code (VuXML) must retain the above # copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following # disclaimer as the first lines of this file unmodified. # 2. Redistributions in compiled form (transformed to other DTDs, # published online in any format, converted to PDF, PostScript, # RTF and other formats) must reproduce the above copyright # notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer # in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the # distribution. # # THIS DOCUMENTATION IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS" # AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, # THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR # PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS # BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, # OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT # OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR # BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, # WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE # OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS DOCUMENTATION, # EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(84526); script_version("2.5"); script_cvs_date("Date: 2018/11/23 12:49:57"); script_cve_id("CVE-2013-2233"); script_name(english:"FreeBSD : ansible -- enable host key checking in paramiko connection type (a478421e-2059-11e5-a4a5-002590263bf5)"); script_summary(english:"Checks for updated package in pkg_info output"); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "Ansible changelog reports : Host key checking is on by default. Disable it if you like by adding host_key_checking=False in the [default] section of /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg or ~/ansible.cfg or by exporting ANSIBLE_HOST_KEY_CHECKING=False." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ansible/ansible/devel/CHANGELOG.md" ); # http://www.ansible.com/security script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://www.ansible.com/security" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/857" ); # https://vuxml.freebsd.org/freebsd/a478421e-2059-11e5-a4a5-002590263bf5.html script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"http://www.nessus.org/u?2606dc6c" ); script_set_attribute(attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected package."); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:ansible"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2012/08/13"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2015/07/02"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2015/07/06"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2015-2018 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"FreeBSD Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/FreeBSD/release", "Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("freebsd_package.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/release")) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "FreeBSD"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); flag = 0; if (pkg_test(save_report:TRUE, pkg:"ansible<1.2.1")) flag++; if (flag) { if (report_verbosity > 0) security_warning(port:0, extra:pkg_report_get()); else security_warning(0); exit(0); } else audit(AUDIT_HOST_NOT, "affected");
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2013-12389.NASL description Upstream 1.2.2 version. See: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ansible-project/Bj0TmfsExhk for more info. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2013-07-15 plugin id 68882 published 2013-07-15 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/68882 title Fedora 19 : ansible-1.2.2-1.fc19 (2013-12389) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2013-12394.NASL description Upstream 1.2.2 version. See: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ansible-project/Bj0TmfsExhk for more info. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2013-07-15 plugin id 68883 published 2013-07-15 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/68883 title Fedora 18 : ansible-1.2.2-1.fc18 (2013-12394) NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2013-12400.NASL description Upstream 1.2.2 version. See: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ansible-project/Bj0TmfsExhk for more info. Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-03-17 modified 2013-07-15 plugin id 68885 published 2013-07-15 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2013-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/68885 title Fedora 17 : ansible-1.2.2-1.fc17 (2013-12400)
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/01/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/01/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/02/6
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/02/6
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=980821
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=980821
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/857
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/857
- https://www.ansible.com/security
- https://www.ansible.com/security