Bug 1396174 (CVE-2016-8647)

Summary:	CVE-2016-8647 Ansible: in some circumstances the mysql_user module may fail to correctly change a password
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Kurt Seifried <kseifried>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	unspecified	CC:	a.badger, apevec, arubin, athmanem, ayoung, bleanhar, bmcclain, ccoleman, chrisw, cvsbot-xmlrpc, dblechte, dedgar, dmcphers, eedri, jgoulding, jialiu, jjoyce, jkeck, jmatthew, joelsmith, jokerman, jschluet, kbasil, kdube, kevin, kupo, lhh, lmeyer, lpeer, markmc, mark, maxim, mgoldboi, michal.skrivanek, mmccomas, notting, nthomas, qci-bugzillas, rbryant, rhos-maint, rhs-bugs, sankarshan, sbonazzo, sclewis, sgirijan, sisharma, slinaber, smallamp, ssaha, storage-qa-internal, tcarlin, tdawson, tdecacqu, toromoti, tsanders, tvignaud, vbellur, ykaul
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	An input validation vulnerability was found in Ansible's mysql_user module which may fail to correctly change a password in certain circumstances. Thus the previous password would still be active when it should have been changed.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2019-06-08 03:02:15 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Depends On:	1396175, 1396176, 1447506, 1470145
Bug Blocks:	1396212, 1396214, 1396334, 1456591

Description Kurt Seifried 2016-11-17 16:48:48 UTC

It is reported that in Ansible, under some circumstances the mysql_user module may fail to correctly change a password. Thus an old password may still be active when it should have been changed.

External References:
https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-core/pull/5388

Comment 1 Kurt Seifried 2016-11-17 16:50:09 UTC

Created ansible tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1396175]

Comment 2 Kurt Seifried 2016-11-17 16:50:43 UTC

Created ansible tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-all [bug 1396176]

Comment 4 Kevin Fenzi 2017-06-01 20:33:50 UTC

This was actually fixed in ansible-2.2.1.0 which was pushed a while back. ;(

Comment 5 Adam Mariš 2017-06-02 06:14:03 UTC

(In reply to Kevin Fenzi from comment #4)
> This was actually fixed in ansible-2.2.1.0 which was pushed a while back. ;(

Please, don't close the bug next time, we still have open trackers for this one. Thanks!

Comment 6 Kevin Fenzi 2017-06-02 16:21:15 UTC

Oops. Very sorry about that...

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2017-07-06 07:28:26 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  RHEV Engine version 4.1

Via RHSA-2017:1685 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1685