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Vigil@nce - Ansible Core: use of obsolete passwords
March 2017 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/offer
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can make profit of a password update failure in
Ansible Core, in order to use privileged accounts.
Impacted products: Ansible Core, Fedora.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 26/01/2017.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
Ansible is a tool for centralized administration.
Authentication relies on a MySQL database. However, it may happen
that the module "mysql_user" fails to update the account password
on a fresh instance. Old passwords, which are often not secret,
remains valid.
An attacker can therefore make profit of a password update failure
in Ansible Core, in order to use privileged accounts.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Ansible-Core-use-of-obsolete-passwords-21684
