An issue discovered in Axios 1.5.1 inadvertently reveals the confidential XSRF-TOKEN stored in cookies by including it in the HTTP header X-XSRF-TOKEN for every request made to any host allowing attackers to view sensitive information.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - An issue discovered in Axios 1.5.1 inadvertently reveals the confidential XSRF-TOKEN stored in cookies by     including it in the HTTP header X-XSRF-TOKEN for every request made to any host allowing attackers to view     sensitive information. (CVE-2023-45857)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The version of IBM Cognos Analytics installed on the remote host is prior to 11.1.7 FP8, 11.2.4 FP3, or 12.0.2. It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the IBM Security Bulletin No. 7123154, including the following:

  - When deserializing untrusted or corrupted data, it is possible for a reader to consume memory beyond the   allowed constraints and thus lead to out of memory on the system. This issue affects Java applications using   Apache Avro Java SDK up to and including 1.11.2. Users should update to apache-avro version 1.11.3 which   addresses this issue. (CVE-2023-39410)

  - In order to decrypt SM2 encrypted data an application is expected to call the API function   EVP_PKEY_decrypt(). Typically an application will call this function twice. The first time, on entry, the   'out' parameter can be NULL and, on exit, the 'outlen' parameter is populated with the buffer size required   to hold the decrypted plaintext. The application can then allocate a sufficiently sized buffer and call   EVP_PKEY_decrypt() again, but this time passing a non-NULL value for the 'out' parameter. A bug in the   implementation of the SM2 decryption code means that the calculation of the buffer size required to hold the   plaintext returned by the first call to EVP_PKEY_decrypt() can be smaller than the actual size required by   the second call. This can lead to a buffer overflow when EVP_PKEY_decrypt() is called by the application a   second time with a buffer that is too small. A malicious attacker who is able present SM2 content for   decryption to an application could cause attacker chosen data to overflow the buffer by up to a maximum of   62 bytes altering the contents of other data held after the buffer, possibly changing application behaviour   or causing the application to crash. The location of the buffer is application dependent but is typically   heap allocated. Fixed in OpenSSL 1.1.1l (Affected 1.1.1-1.1.1k). (CVE-2021-3711)

  - SnakeYaml's Constructor() class does not restrict types which can be instantiated during deserialization.
  Deserializing yaml content provided by an attacker can lead to remote code execution. We recommend using   SnakeYaml's SafeConsturctor when parsing untrusted content to restrict deserialization. We recommend   upgrading to version 2.0 and beyond. (CVE-2022-1471)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 / 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:1640 advisory.

    Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform provides an enterprise framework for building, deploying and managing     IT automation at scale. IT Managers can provide top-down guidelines on how automation is applied to     individual teams, while automation developers retain the freedom to write tasks that leverage existing     knowledge without the overhead. Ansible Automation Platform makes it possible for users across an     organization to share, vet, and manage automation content by means of a simple, powerful, and agentless     language.

    Security Fix(es):

    * automation-controller: Django: denial-of-service in 'intcomma' template filter (CVE-2024-24680)
    * automation-controller: aiohttp: http request smuggling (CVE-2024-23829)
    * automation-controller: aiohttp: follow_symlinks directory traversal vulnerability (CVE-2024-23334)
    * automation-controller: Jinja2: HTML attribute injection when passing user input as keys to xmlattr     filter (CVE-2024-22195)
    * automation-controller: cryptography: NULL-dereference when loading PKCS7 certificates (CVE-2023-49083)
    * automation-controller: aiohttp: numerous issues in HTTP parser with header parsing (CVE-2023-47627)
    * automation-controller: Twisted: disordered HTTP pipeline response in twisted.web (CVE-2023-46137)
    * automation-controller: axios: exposure of confidential data stored in cookies (CVE-2023-45857)
    * automation-controller: GitPython: Blind local file inclusion (CVE-2023-41040)
    * python3-aiohttp/python39-aiohttp: http request smuggling (CVE-2024-23829)
    * python3-aiohttp/python39-aiohttp: follow_symlinks directory traversal vulnerability (CVE-2024-23334)
    * python3-django/python39-django: Potential regular expression denial-of-service in     django.utils.text.Truncator.words() (CVE-2024-27351)
    * receptor: golang-fips/openssl: Memory leaks in code encrypting and decrypting RSA payloads     (CVE-2024-1394)
    * receptor: golang: net/http/internal: Denial of Service (DoS) via Resource Consumption via HTTP requests     (CVE-2023-39326)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and     other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    Updates and fixes for automation controller:
    * Fixed bug where schedule prompted variables and survey answers were reset on edit when changing one of     the basic form fields (AAP-20967)
    * Fixed the update execution environment image to no longer fail jobs that use the previous image     (AAP-21733)
    * Removed string validation using comparisons of English literals for comparison, replacing validation     with error/op codes as a universal approach to validation and comparison (AAP-21721)
    * Fixed dispatcher to appropriately terminate child processes when dispatcher terminates (AAP-21049)
    * Fixed upgrade from Ansible Tower 3.8.6 to AAP 2.4 to no longer fail upon database schema migration     (AAP-19738)
    * automation-controller has been updated to 4.5.5

    Updates and fixes for receptor:
    * Fixes a receptor dialing issue where the connection attempt is timed out too aggressively (AAP-21838,     AAP-21828)
    * receptor has been updated to 1.4.5

    Additional fixes:
    * ansible-core has been updated to 2.15.10
    * ansible-runner has been updated to 2.3.6
    * python3-aiohttp/python39-aiohttp has been updated to 3.9.3
    * python3-django/python39-django has been updated  4.2.11
    * python3-pulpcore/python39-pulpcore has been updated 3.28.24

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
226384	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-45857	Nessus	Misc.	medium
193868	IBM Cognos Analytics 11.1.1 < 11.1.7 FP8 / 11.2.x < 11.2.4 FP3 / 12.0.x < 12.0.2 (7123154)	Nessus	CGI abuses	critical
193086	RHEL 8 / 9 : Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 Product Security and Bug Fix Update (Moderate) (RHSA-2024:1640)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical

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