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PYSEC-2019-5

Quick fix

PYSEC-2019-5 — ansible: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'ansible>=2.5.15'

Details

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.

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Affected packages

PyPI/ansible

Introduced in: 2.5.0Fixed in: 2.5.15

Fixpip install --upgrade 'ansible>=2.5.15'

References

https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/52133[WEB]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3828[REPORT]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-04/msg00021.html[WEB]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00077.html[WEB]
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4072-1/[WEB]
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-08/msg00020.html[WEB]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3744[ADVISORY]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3789[ADVISORY]
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-74vq-h4q8-x6jv[ADVISORY]