Red Hat Ansible Engine up to 2.8.14/2.9.12 dnf Module signature verification

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability labeled as critical has been found in Red Hat Ansible Engine up to 2.8.14/2.9.12. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component dnf Module. Such manipulation leads to signature verification. This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2020-14365. No exploit is available. The affected component should be upgraded.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Ansible Engine up to 2.8.14/2.9.12 and classified as critical. Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the component dnf Module. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a signature verification vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-347. The product does not verify, or incorrectly verifies, the cryptographic signature for data. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

A flaw was found in the Ansible Engine, in ansible-engine 2.8.x before 2.8.15 and ansible-engine 2.9.x before 2.9.13, when installing packages using the dnf module. GPG signatures are ignored during installation even when disable_gpg_check is set to False, which is the default behavior. This flaw leads to malicious packages being installed on the system and arbitrary code executed via package installation scripts. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to integrity and system availability.

The weakness was published 09/23/2020 as Bug 1869154 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is shared for download at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2020-14365 since 06/17/2020. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available.

Upgrading to version 2.8.15 or 2.9.13 eliminates this vulnerability.

Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

Productinfo

Vendor

• Red Hat

Name

• Ansible Engine

Version

• 2.8.0
• 2.8.1
• 2.8.2
• 2.8.3
• 2.8.4
• 2.8.5
• 2.8.6
• 2.8.7
• 2.8.8
• 2.8.9
• 2.8.10
• 2.8.11
• 2.8.12
• 2.8.13
• 2.8.14
• 2.9.0
• 2.9.1
• 2.9.2
• 2.9.3
• 2.9.4
• 2.9.5
• 2.9.6
• 2.9.7
• 2.9.8
• 2.9.9
• 2.9.10
• 2.9.11
• 2.9.12

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.redhat.com/

CPE 2.3info

• 🔍
• 🔍
• 🔍

CPE 2.2info

• 🔍
• 🔍
• 🔍

CVSSv4info

CVSSv3info

CVSSv2info

Exploitinginfo

Threat Intelligenceinfo

Countermeasuresinfo

Timelineinfo

Sourcesinfo

Entryinfo

Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

Discussion