diff --git a/SPECS/ansible/ansible.signatures.json b/SPECS/ansible/ansible.signatures.json
index c0db6b457e..6678f9b3e4 100644
--- a/SPECS/ansible/ansible.signatures.json
+++ b/SPECS/ansible/ansible.signatures.json
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 {
  "Signatures": {
-  "ansible-2.9.9.tar.gz": "e83d84ae8bf131c0499d8a4c0e1144bf969454c43086e61cca3c224227df29d1"
+  "ansible-2.9.12.tar.gz": "7e95ddf719190b068fafc7d7c7877c218054cc5da4f6d9d794faf7bc66dab774"
  }
 }
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/SPECS/ansible/ansible.spec b/SPECS/ansible/ansible.spec
index f334ae1802..78d2077905 100644
--- a/SPECS/ansible/ansible.spec
+++ b/SPECS/ansible/ansible.spec
@@ -1,27 +1,22 @@
 %{!?python2_sitelib: %global python2_sitelib %(python2 -c "from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib;print(get_python_lib())")}
-
 Summary:        Configuration-management, application deployment, cloud provisioning system
 Name:           ansible
-Version:        2.9.9
+Version:        2.9.12
 Release:        1%{?dist}
 License:        GPLv3+
-URL:            https://www.ansible.com
-Group:          Development/Libraries
 Vendor:         Microsoft Corporation
 Distribution:   Mariner
+Group:          Development/Libraries
+URL:            https://www.ansible.com
 Source0:        https://releases.ansible.com/ansible/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
-
-
-BuildArch:      noarch
-
+BuildRequires:  python-setuptools
 BuildRequires:  python2
 BuildRequires:  python2-libs
-BuildRequires:  python-setuptools
-
 Requires:       python2
-Requires:       python2-libs
 # Required for %check
 Requires:       python2-devel
+Requires:       python2-libs
+BuildArch:      noarch
 
 %description
 Ansible is a radically simple IT automation system. It handles configuration-management, application deployment, cloud provisioning, ad-hoc task-execution, and multinode orchestration - including trivializing things like zero downtime rolling updates with load balancers.
@@ -33,9 +28,8 @@ Ansible is a radically simple IT automation system. It handles configuration-man
 python2 setup.py build
 
 %install
-%{__rm} -rf %{buildroot}
 python2 setup.py install -O1 --skip-build \
-    --root "%{buildroot}"
+    --root %{buildroot}
 
 %check
 python2 setup.py test
@@ -47,23 +41,35 @@ python2 setup.py test
 %{python2_sitelib}/*
 
 %changelog
+* Wed Dec 30 2020 Nicolas Ontiveros <niontive@microsoft.com> - 2.9.12-1
+- Upgrade to version 2.9.12, which resolves CVE-2020-10744
+
 *   Tue Jun 02 2020 Nicolas Ontiveros <niontive@microsoft.com> 2.9.9-1
 -   Upgrade to version 2.9.9, which resolves CVE-2020-1733 and CVE-2020-1738.
-*   Sat May 09 00:21:43 PST 2020 Nick Samson <nisamson@microsoft.com> 2.9.5-2
+
+*   Sat May 09 2020 Nick Samson <nisamson@microsoft.com> 2.9.5-2
 -   Added %%license line automatically
+
 *   Wed Mar 18 2020 Emre Girgin <mrgirgin@microsoft.com> 2.9.5-1
 -   Version update to 2.9.5. License verified.
+
 *   Tue Sep 03 2019 Mateusz Malisz <mamalisz@microsoft.com> 2.7.6-2
 -   Initial CBL-Mariner import from Photon (license: Apache2).
+
 *   Tue Jan 22 2019 Anish Swaminathan <anishs@vmware.com> 2.7.6-1
 -   Version update to 2.7.6, fix CVE-2018-16876
+
 *   Mon Sep 17 2018 Ankit Jain <ankitja@vmware.com> 2.6.4-1
 -   Version update to 2.6.4
+
 *   Thu Oct 12 2017 Anish Swaminathan <anishs@vmware.com> 2.4.0.0-1
 -   Version update to 2.4.0.0
+
 *   Thu Jun 01 2017 Dheeraj Shetty <dheerajs@vmware.com> 2.2.2.0-2
 -   Use python2 explicitly
+
 *   Thu Apr 6 2017 Alexey Makhalov <amakhalov@vmware.com> 2.2.2.0-1
 -   Version update
+
 *   Wed Sep 21 2016 Xiaolin Li <xiaolinl@vmware.com> 2.1.1.0-1
 -   Initial build. First version
diff --git a/cgmanifest.json b/cgmanifest.json
index c3c77fa4bc..ec6115648b 100644
--- a/cgmanifest.json
+++ b/cgmanifest.json
@@ -35,8 +35,8 @@
         "type": "other",
         "other": {
           "name": "ansible",
-          "version": "2.9.9",
-          "downloadUrl": "https://releases.ansible.com/ansible/ansible-2.9.9.tar.gz"
+          "version": "2.9.12",
+          "downloadUrl": "https://releases.ansible.com/ansible/ansible-2.9.12.tar.gz"
         }
       }
     },