Red Hat Ansible up to 2.2.3 Call Back Plugin information disclosure

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A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Ansible up to 2.2.3. It has been declared as problematic. This affects an unknown function of the component Call Back Plugin Handler. The manipulation results in information disclosure. This vulnerability is identified as CVE-2017-7473. There is not any exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Red Hat Ansible up to 2.2.3. Affected is some unknown processing of the component Call Back Plugin Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a information disclosure vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-200. The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

Ansible versions 2.2.3 and earlier are vulnerable to an information disclosure flaw due to the interaction of call back plugins and the no_log directive where the information may not be sanitized properly.

The bug was discovered 03/11/2017. The weakness was released 07/21/2017 (Website). The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2017-7473 since 04/05/2017. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to launch the attack remotely. The exploitation doesn't require any form of authentication. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1592.

The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 132 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k. The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 103476 (FreeBSD : ansible -- information disclosure flaw (478d4102-2319-4026-b3b2-a57c48f159ac)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment. It is assigned to the family FreeBSD Local Security Checks and running in the context l.

Upgrading eliminates this vulnerability. A possible mitigation has been published 3 months after the disclosure of the vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (103476). VulDB is the best source for vulnerability data and more expert information about this specific topic.

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• Red Hat

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• Ansible

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• 2.2.0
• 2.2.1
• 2.2.2
• 2.2.3

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• open-source

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• Vendor: https://www.redhat.com/

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