ansible/changelogs/fragments/63362-remove-edgeos-filtering.yaml

bugfixes:
  - edgeos_config - fix issue where module would silently filter out encrypted passwords
Remove filtering from edgeos_config module (#63362) The edgeos_config module had a list of commands to filter out to avoid load failures. This list had a single regular expression which caught commands that attempted to set pre-encrypted passwords. This behavior is undesirable for a few reasons. * It's poorly documented. The documentation makes cryptic mention of a return value that some commands might be filtered out, but offers no explanation as to what they are or why. * It's hard-coded. There's no way for the user to change or disable this functionality, rendering the commands caught by that expression completely unusable with the edgeos_config module. * The obvious workaround is unsafe. The filter catches passwords that are already encrypted, but is perfectly fine letting the user set plain-text passwords. EdgeOS will encrypt them upon commit, but this module encourages unsafe handling of secrets up to that point. * It's a security vulnerability if the user doesn't know about this behavior. While the module will warn if commands are filtered, the user won't know what got filtered out until after the fact, and may easily miss that warning if they are not vigilant. For something as sensitive as setting a password, it's not hard to imagine naive use of this module resulting in incorrect credentials being deployed. * It provides no discernible benefit. Using the module without filtering does not result in load failures. If those commands are indeed harmful for some reason on (old?) versions of EdgeOS, it should be incumbent upon the user to be scrupulous in what commands they issue, rather than the module maintaining a blacklist of possible ways the user might misuse their own system. 2020-02-05 20:57:55 +01:00			`bugfixes:`
			`- edgeos_config - fix issue where module would silently filter out encrypted passwords`