Vulnerabilities > CVE-2016-8614 - Key Management Errors vulnerability in Redhat Ansible
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
NONE Summary
A flaw was found in Ansible before version 2.2.0. The apt_key module does not properly verify key fingerprints, allowing remote adversary to create an OpenPGP key which matches the short key ID and inject this key instead of the correct key.
Vulnerable Configurations
Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)
Nessus
NASL family SuSE Local Security Checks NASL id OPENSUSE-2017-1259.NASL description This update for ansible to version 2.4.1.0 fixes the following vulnerabilities : - CVE-2017-7481: Security issue with lookup return not tainting the jinja2 environment (bsc#1038785) - CVE-2016-9587: host to controller command execution vulnerability (bsc#1019021) - CVE-2016-8628: Command injection by compromised server via fact variables (bsc#1008037) - CVE-2016-8614: Improper verification of key fingerprints in apt_key module (bsc#1008038) - CVE-2017-7550: jenkins_plugin module may have exposed passwords in remote host logs (bsc#1065872) This update also contains a number of upstream bug fixes and improvements. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2017-11-13 plugin id 104522 published 2017-11-13 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/104522 title openSUSE Security Update : ansible (openSUSE-2017-1259) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from openSUSE Security Update openSUSE-2017-1259. # # The text description of this plugin is (C) SUSE LLC. # include("compat.inc"); 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script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:ansible"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.2"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.3"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2017/11/10"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2017/11/13"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2017-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"SuSE Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/SuSE/release", "Host/SuSE/rpm-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/SuSE/release"); 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NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2016-3113E71193.NASL description Add patch to fix dnf module groupinstall handling ---- Update to new ansible 2.2 version. For full changes see : https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.2/CHANGELOG.md Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-06-05 modified 2016-11-08 plugin id 94614 published 2016-11-08 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/94614 title Fedora 24 : ansible (2016-3113e71193) code #%NASL_MIN_LEVEL 80502 # # (C) Tenable Network Security, Inc. # # The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were # extracted from Fedora Security Advisory FEDORA-2016-3113e71193. # include("compat.inc"); if (description) { script_id(94614); script_version("2.4"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_modification_date", value:"2020/06/04"); script_cve_id("CVE-2016-8614", "CVE-2016-8628"); script_xref(name:"FEDORA", value:"2016-3113e71193"); script_name(english:"Fedora 24 : ansible (2016-3113e71193)"); script_summary(english:"Checks rpm output for the updated package."); script_set_attribute( attribute:"synopsis", value:"The remote Fedora host is missing a security update." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"description", value: "Add patch to fix dnf module groupinstall handling ---- Update to new ansible 2.2 version. For full changes see : https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.2/CHANGELOG.md Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues." ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2016-3113e71193" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"see_also", value:"https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/stable-2.2/CHANGELOG.md" ); script_set_attribute( attribute:"solution", value:"Update the affected ansible package." ); script_set_cvss_base_vector("CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C"); script_set_cvss3_base_vector("CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_type", value:"local"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:ansible"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"cpe", value:"cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:24"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"vuln_publication_date", value:"2018/07/31"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"patch_publication_date", value:"2016/11/07"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"plugin_publication_date", value:"2016/11/08"); script_set_attribute(attribute:"generated_plugin", value:"current"); script_end_attributes(); script_category(ACT_GATHER_INFO); script_copyright(english:"This script is Copyright (C) 2016-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof."); script_family(english:"Fedora Local Security Checks"); script_dependencies("ssh_get_info.nasl"); script_require_keys("Host/local_checks_enabled", "Host/RedHat/release", "Host/RedHat/rpm-list"); exit(0); } include("audit.inc"); include("global_settings.inc"); include("rpm.inc"); if (!get_kb_item("Host/local_checks_enabled")) audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_ENABLED); release = get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/release"); if (isnull(release) || "Fedora" >!< release) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora"); os_ver = pregmatch(pattern: "Fedora.*release ([0-9]+)", string:release); if (isnull(os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_APP_VER, "Fedora"); os_ver = os_ver[1]; if (! preg(pattern:"^24([^0-9]|$)", string:os_ver)) audit(AUDIT_OS_NOT, "Fedora 24", "Fedora " + os_ver); if (!get_kb_item("Host/RedHat/rpm-list")) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_LIST_MISSING); cpu = get_kb_item("Host/cpu"); if (isnull(cpu)) audit(AUDIT_UNKNOWN_ARCH); if ("x86_64" >!< cpu && cpu !~ "^i[3-6]86$") audit(AUDIT_LOCAL_CHECKS_NOT_IMPLEMENTED, "Fedora", cpu); flag = 0; if (rpm_check(release:"FC24", reference:"ansible-2.2.0.0-3.fc24")) flag++; if (flag) { security_report_v4( port : 0, severity : SECURITY_HOLE, extra : rpm_report_get() ); exit(0); } else { tested = pkg_tests_get(); if (tested) audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_AFFECTED, tested); else audit(AUDIT_PACKAGE_NOT_INSTALLED, "ansible"); }
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94108
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94108
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8614
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2016-8614
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core/issues/5237
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core/issues/5237
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core/pull/5353
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core/pull/5353
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core/pull/5357
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core/pull/5357