RHSA-2021:0663: Red Hat Security Advisory: Ansible security and bug fix update (2.9.18)

An update for ansible is now available for Ansible Engine 2 Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.Ansible is a simple model-driven configuration management, multi-node deployment, and remote-task execution system. Ansible works over SSH and does not require any software or daemons to be installed on remote nodes. Extension modules can be written in any language and are transferred to managed machines automatically. The following packages have been upgraded to a newer upstream version: ansible (2.9.18) Bug Fix(es):

• CVE-2021-20178 ansible: user data leak in snmp_facts module
• CVE-2021-20180 ansible module: bitbucket_pipeline_variable exposes secured values
• CVE-2021-20191 ansible: multiple collections exposes secured values
• CVE-2021-20228 ansible: basic.py no_log with fallback option See: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.9.18/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.9.rst for details on bug fixes in this release. Related CVEs:
• CVE-2021-20178: ansible: user data leak in snmp_facts module
• CVE-2021-20180: ansible module: bitbucket_pipeline_variable exposes secured values
• CVE-2021-20191: ansible: multiple modules expose secured values
• CVE-2021-20228: ansible: basic.py no_log with fallback option