RHEL 7 / 8 : Red Hat Automation Platform 1.2.5 (RHSA-2021:3473)

high Nessus Plugin ID 193835

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 / 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2021:3473 advisory.

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform integrates Red Hats automation suite consisting of Red Hat Ansible Tower, Red Hat Ansible Engine, and use-case specific capabilities for Microsoft Windows,network, security, and more, along with Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-based capabilities and features for organization-wide effectiveness.

Security Fix(es):

* python-urllib3: Catastrophic backtracking in URL authority parser (CVE-2021-33503)

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:

This update fixes various bugs and adds enhancements. Documentation for these changes is available from the Release Notes document linked to in the References section.

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

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 193835

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2021-3473.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 4/24/2024

Updated: 11/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-33503

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-gnupg, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-galaxy-ng, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-urllib3, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-click, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-urllib3, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-galaxy-ng, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-markupsafe, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:automation-hub, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-jinja2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-chardet, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-semantic-version

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/8/2021

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/26/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-33503

CWE: 835

RHSA: 2021:3473

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