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Security Bulletin: Ansible vulnerability affects IBM Elastic Storage System (CVE-2021-20228)

Security Bulletin


Summary

Ansible, which is used in IBM Elastic Storage System could allow a local authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID:   CVE-2021-20228
DESCRIPTION:   Ansible Engine could allow a local authenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by sensitive info is not masked or not protected by the no_log feature by default. By sending a specially-crafted request, an attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information, and use this information to launch further attacks against the affected system.
CVSS Base score: 5.5
CVSS Temporal Score: See: https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/201040 for the current score.
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

Affected Product(s)Version(s)
IBM Elastic Storage System6.0.0 - 6.0.2.0

Remediation/Fixes

IBM recommends that you fix this vulnerability by upgrading affected versions of IBM Elastic Storage System 3000 and 5000 to the following code levels or higher:

V6.0.2.1

https://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/selectFixes?parent=Software%20defined%20storage&product=ibm/StorageSoftware/IBM+Elastic+Storage+Server+(ESS)&release=6.0.0&platform=All&function=all

Workarounds and Mitigations

None

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References

Complete CVSS v3 Guide
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Related Information

IBM Secure Engineering Web Portal
IBM Product Security Incident Response Blog

Change History

19 May 2021: Initial Publication

*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

Disclaimer

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Document Location

Worldwide

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Document Information

Modified date:
24 May 2021

Initial Publish date:
19 May 2021

UID

ibm16455627

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