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RHEL 8 / 9 : Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.2.0 Product Security Update (Important) (RHSA-2022:6079)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 194191

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 / 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:6079 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 hub: Ansible: Logic flaw leads to privilege escalation (CVE-2022-2568)

 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.

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 python3-galaxy-ng and / or python39-galaxy-ng packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2108653

http://www.nessus.org/u?919e2e89

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:6079

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 194191

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2022-6079.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/28/2024

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: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2022-2568

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.5

Temporal Score: 5.9

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-galaxy-ng, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-galaxy-ng, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3x-galaxy-ng, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-galaxy-ng, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/16/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/16/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2022-2568

CWE: 269

RHSA: 2022:6079