An absolute path traversal attack exists in the Ansible automation platform. This flaw allows an attacker to craft a malicious Ansible role and make the victim execute the role. A symlink can be used to overwrite a file outside of the extraction path.

An update of the ansible package has been released.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 / 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:5701 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):
    * ansible-core: malicious role archive can cause ansible-galaxy to overwrite arbitrary files     (CVE-2023-5115)
    * automation-controller: Django: Potential denial of service vulnerability in     django.utils.encoding.uri_to_iri() (CVE-2023-41164)

    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.

    Additional changes:
    * ansible-core has been updated to 2.14.11
    * automation-controller has been updated to 4.3.16

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.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 / 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:5758 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):
    * ansible-core: malicious role archive can cause ansible-galaxy to overwrite arbitrary files     (CVE-2023-5115)
    * automation-controller: Django: Potential denial of service vulnerability in     django.utils.encoding.uri_to_iri() (CVE-2023-41164)
    * python3-django/python39-django: Denial-of-service possibility in django.utils.text.Truncator     (CVE-2023-43665)

    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.

    Additional changes:
    * ansible-core has been updated to 2.15.5
    * automation-controller has been updated to 4.4.6
    * python3-django/python39-django has been updated to 3.2.22
    * automation controller: Added a new subscription usage page to the controller UI to view historical usage     of licenses (AAP-16983)

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.

It is, therefore, affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALAS2023-2024-505 advisory.

  - An absolute path traversal attack exists in the Ansible automation platform. This flaw allows an attacker     to craft a malicious Ansible role and make the victim execute the role. A symlink can be used to overwrite     a file outside of the extraction path. (CVE-2023-5115)

  - An information disclosure flaw was found in ansible-core due to a failure to respect the ANSIBLE_NO_LOG     configuration in some scenarios. It was discovered that information is still included in the output in     certain tasks, such as loop items. Depending on the task, this issue may include sensitive information,     such as decrypted secret values. (CVE-2024-0690)

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

The remote Fedora 39 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-389ed7a7e7 advisory.

  - An absolute path traversal attack exists in the Ansible automation platform. This flaw allows an attacker     to craft a malicious Ansible role and make the victim execute the role. A symlink can be used to overwrite     a file outside of the extraction path. (CVE-2023-5115)

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

The remote Fedora 37 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-cdc7db366e advisory.

  - An absolute path traversal attack exists in the Ansible automation platform. This flaw allows an attacker     to craft a malicious Ansible role and make the victim execute the role. A symlink can be used to overwrite     a file outside of the extraction path. (CVE-2023-5115)

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

The remote Fedora 38 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the FEDORA-2023-e5d4a632a5 advisory.

  - An absolute path traversal attack exists in the Ansible automation platform. This flaw allows an attacker     to craft a malicious Ansible role and make the victim execute the role. A symlink can be used to overwrite     a file outside of the extraction path. (CVE-2023-5115)

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

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
204331	Photon OS 5.0: Ansible PHSA-2024-5.0-0184	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
204137	Photon OS 4.0: Ansible PHSA-2024-4.0-0547	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	high
204110	Photon OS 3.0: Ansible PHSA-2024-3.0-0717	Nessus	PhotonOS Local Security Checks	medium
194401	RHEL 8 / 9 : Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.3 Product Security and Bug Fix Update (Moderate) (RHSA-2023:5701)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
194369	RHEL 8 / 9 : Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 Product Security and Bug Fix Update (Moderate) (RHSA-2023:5758)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
190079	Amazon Linux 2023 : ansible-core, ansible-test (ALAS2023-2024-505)	Nessus	Amazon Linux Local Security Checks	medium
185316	Fedora 39 : ansible-core (2023-389ed7a7e7)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
183660	Fedora 37 : ansible-core (2023-cdc7db366e)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium
183655	Fedora 38 : ansible-core (2023-e5d4a632a5)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	medium

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