Ansible Playbook to run the Red Hat spectre-meltdown check script for CVE-2017-5754 CVE-2017-5753 CVE-2017-5715.

Aka: Spectre and Meltdown Kernel side-channel attacks.

1. Set your inventory under [Check]
2. Ensure ansible_user variable is set for a valid user, use host variables if needed.
3. Make sure ansible_become_pass has a valid password IF password-less sudo is not enabled.
4. Make sure ScriptUrl variable is set appropriately.
5. Make sure ScriptGpgSigUrl variable is set correctly - if you want to verify the GPG2 signature of the script.

You can run the playbook like so:

ansible-playbook -i inventory site.yml

Playbook will automatically download the check script and verify the GPG2 signature if the ScriptGpgSigUrl variable is defined.

Hosts that are vulnerable will show up as failed with a message of what vulnerabiliy was found. Additionally under the highlight vulnerabilites task, you will see the vulnerability that was found as a changed task.

TASK [highlight vulnerabilites] ******
ok: [store1] => (item=Spectre1)
ok: [oldgw] => (item=Spectre1)
changed: [oldgw] => (item=Spectre2)
ok: [oldgw] => (item=Meltdown)
changed: [store1] => (item=Spectre2)
ok: [store1] => (item=Meltdown)

TASK [Error if vulnerabilities] ******
fatal: [store1]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "failed": true, "msg": "found vulnerabilites: Spectre2"}
fatal: [oldgw]: FAILED! => {"changed": false, "failed": true, "msg": "found vulnerabilites: Spectre2"}

Red Hat Knowledge article: https://access.redhat.com/security/vulnerabilities/speculativeexecution

What is Spectre and Meltdown: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/what-are-meltdown-and-spectre-heres-what-you-need-know

I wrote this on my own time for my own purposes. This playbook is not official, not endorsed, not supported, nor maintained by Red Hat.