RHEL 8 / 9 : Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 Product Security and Bug Fix Update (Moderate) (RHSA-2023:5208)

high Nessus Plugin ID 194229

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-2023:5208 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):
* python3-django/python39-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 2.15.4 (AAP-16010)
* ansible-runner has been updated to 2.3.4 (AAP-15594)
* automation-controller has been updated to 4.4.4 (AAP-15594)
* python3-django/python39-django has been updated to 3.2.21 (AAP-15704)

Updates and fixes for automation controller:
* Fixed job error handling so that we correctly report error text from ansible-runner or receptor in cases we previously showed Job terminated due to error (AAP-12917)
* The constructed inventory edit form no longer hangs indefinitely in the loading state for users with edit permissions (AAP-15099)
* Added views for a monthly summary of host metrics (AAP-15677)
* Added host metrics to exported analytics data (AAP-15677)
* Introduced a periodic task and management command for cleaning up old host metrics (AAP-15677)
* Fixed bug where rapidly clicking on launch button in preview step would launch multiple jobs (AAP-15689)
* Fixed incorrect capacity for remote execution nodes when resource limits are set in OpenShift (AAP-15736)

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-django and / or python39-django packages.

See Also

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2237258

http://www.nessus.org/u?debcf737

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5208

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 194229

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-5208.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: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-41164

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-django, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3x-django, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-django, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-django, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

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: 9/18/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/4/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-41164

CWE: 400

RHSA: 2023:5208