Ansible
tool · Red Hat / Ansible community
Current status
Supported version lines, end-of-life status, and latest releases for Ansible — derived from official vendor sources, not third-party EOL aggregators.
Ansible is an open-source automation engine for configuration management, application deployment, and orchestration using ansible-core releases.
Security: 12 tracked advisories. Details below — lifecycle and vulnerability status are separate.
Official site →Version lines
9
Supported
9
EOL lines
0
Latest stable
2.21.3
2026-08-10
Releases tracked
115
At a glance
Latest release
2.21.3
Line 2.21
Recommended support line
2.21
standard support
Status
STANDARD SUPPORT
Newest supported: 2.21
EOL
Not published
Exact date not officially published
Recommended line: 2.21 (newest supported line with lowest lifecycle risk — not blindly “latest”).
Supported versions
9 currently supported release lines.
| Version line | Lifecycle | Latest release | Released | EOL | Risk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.21 | standard supportlow | 2.21.3 | 2026-08-10 | Not officially published | low |
| 2.20 | standard supportlow | 2.20.8 | 2026-08-10 | Not officially published | low |
| 2.19 | standard supportlow | 2.19.12 | 2026-08-10 | Not officially published | low |
| 2.18 | standard supportlow | 2.18.19 | 2026-08-10 | Not officially published | low |
| 2.17 | standard supportlow | 2.17.14 | 2025-09-08 | Not officially published | low |
| 2.16 | standard supportlow | 2.16.19 | 2026-06-18 | Not officially published | low |
| 2.15 | standard supportlow | 2.15.13 | 2024-11-04 | Not officially published | low |
| 2.14 | standard supportlow | 2.14.18 | 2024-11-04 | Not officially published | low |
| 2.13 | standard supportlow | 2.13.13 | 2023-10-09 | Not officially published | low |
Lifecycle overview
Support windows from official lifecycle periods. Empty segments mean no dated period for that phase.
- 2.21standard supportstandard support
- 2.20standard supportstandard support
- 2.19standard supportstandard support
- 2.18standard supportstandard support
- 2.17standard supportstandard support
- 2.16standard supportstandard support
- 2.15standard supportstandard support
- 2.14standard supportstandard support
- 2.13standard supportstandard support
Known vulnerabilities
Recent OSV.dev advisories mapped to this product. CVSS/CWE from NVD and known-exploited status from CISA KEV when available. CompatHub is not the original vulnerability authority.
- CVE-2024-11079
Ansible-core: unsafe tagging bypass via hostvars object in ansible-core
- Affected:
- <=2.18.0
- Source:
- OSV source · Advisory
- CVE-2024-9902
Ansible-core: ansible-core user may read/write unauthorized content
- Affected:
- >=2.18.0b1,<2.18.0rc2
- Fixed in:
- 2.18.0rc2
- Source:
- OSV source · Advisory
- CVE-2024-10033
Aap-gateway: xss on aap-gateway
- Affected:
- <2.5.3
- Fixed in:
- 2.5.3
- Source:
- OSV source · Advisory
- CVE-2024-8775
Ansible-core: exposure of sensitive information in ansible vault files due to improper logging
- Affected:
- >=1.0.0,<=2.17.4
- Source:
- OSV source · Advisory
- CVE-2024-0690
Ansible-core: possible information leak in tasks that ignore ansible_no_log configuration
- Affected:
- >=2.16.0,<2.16.3
- Fixed in:
- 2.16.3
- Source:
- OSV source · Advisory
- CVE-2023-5764
Ansible: template injection
- Affected:
- >=2.16.0-rc1,<2.15.7
- Fixed in:
- 2.15.7
- Source:
- OSV source · Advisory
- CVE-2022-3697
- Affected:
- >=2.1.0,<5.1.0; >=2.5.0,<2.10.0
- Fixed in:
- 5.1.0, 2.10.0
- Source:
- OSV source · Advisory
- CVE-2021-20180
- Affected:
- <2.9.18
- Fixed in:
- 2.9.18
- Source:
- OSV source
- CVE-2021-3620
- Affected:
- <2.9.27
- Fixed in:
- 2.9.27
- Source:
- OSV source · Advisory
- CVE-2021-3583
- Affected:
- <2.9.23
- Fixed in:
- 2.9.23
- Source:
- OSV source
- CVE-2020-10729
- Affected:
- <2.9.6
- Fixed in:
- 2.9.6
- Source:
- OSV source · Advisory
- CVE-2021-20191
- Affected:
- >=2.10.0,<2.10.7; <1.4.0; <1.2.2; >=2.0.0,<2.0.1; >=2.0.0,<2.0.1; >=1.0.2,<=1.0.2
- Fixed in:
- 2.10.7, 1.4.0, 1.2.2, 2.0.1
- Source:
- OSV source
Compare versions
Side-by-side view of the most relevant release lines.
Recent releases
Latest release date 2026-08-10 · 4 in last 30 days · 10 in last 90 days
- 2026-08-10
- 2026-08-10
- 2026-08-10
2.19.12
Line 2.19 · standard support - 2026-08-10
2.18.19
Line 2.18 · standard support - 2026-07-13
- 2026-06-18
2.16.19
Line 2.16 · standard support - 2026-06-18
2.18.18
Line 2.18 · standard support - 2026-06-18
2.19.11
Line 2.19 · standard support - 2026-06-18
- 2026-06-18
Should I upgrade?
Current versions are supported
The preferred supported release line is Ansible 2.21 (standard support).
Data coverage
- Version lines
- 9
- Concrete releases
- 115
- Supported lines
- 9
- EOL lines
- 0
- Lifecycle coverage
- 9/9
- EOL coverage
- 0/9
- Provenance coverage
- 9/9
Data freshness
Last checked = last successful upstream check. Latest source update = when upstream content last changed.
- Data last checked
- 2026-08-31
- Latest source update
- 2026-08-31
Sources
First-party and other registered sources contributing release and lifecycle facts.
- Ansible GitHub Releasesfirst party · high
Official source: https://api.github.com/repos/ansible/ansible/releases
Last verified 2026-08-31
- CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilitiesfirst party
Official source: https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog
Last checked 2026-08-31
- NVD (NIST)first party
Official source: https://nvd.nist.gov
Last checked 2026-08-31
- OSV.devfirst party
Official source: https://osv.dev
Last checked 2026-08-31
- Ansible release and maintenance documentationfirst party
Official source: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ansible/ansible-documentation/devel/docs/docsite/rst/reference_appendices/release_and_maintenance.rst
Last checked 2026-08-31
Version line directory
Complete navigation into detailed version-line pages.
Currently supported
| Version line | Status | Latest release | Released | EOL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.21 | standard supportlow | 2.21.3 | 2026-08-10 | Not officially published |
| 2.20 | standard supportlow | 2.20.8 | 2026-08-10 | Not officially published |
| 2.19 | standard supportlow | 2.19.12 | 2026-08-10 | Not officially published |
| 2.18 | standard supportlow | 2.18.19 | 2026-08-10 | Not officially published |
| 2.17 | standard supportlow | 2.17.14 | 2025-09-08 | Not officially published |
| 2.16 | standard supportlow | 2.16.19 | 2026-06-18 | Not officially published |
| 2.15 | standard supportlow | 2.15.13 | 2024-11-04 | Not officially published |
| 2.14 | standard supportlow | 2.14.18 | 2024-11-04 | Not officially published |
| 2.13 | standard supportlow | 2.13.13 | 2023-10-09 | Not officially published |