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RHEL 8 / 9 : Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.3 Product Security and Bug Fix Update (Moderate) (RHSA-2023:4590)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 194251
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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-2023:4590 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: Html injection in custom login info (CVE-2023-3971)
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 for automation controller:
* automation-controller has been updated to 4.3.11 (AAP-14634)
* receptor has been updated to 1.4.1 (AAP-14641)
* Fixed server error that happens when deleting workflow jobs ran before event partitioning migration (AAP-7965)
* Fixed bug where users could get an erroneous 400 error when disabling or enabling a schedule (AAP-10943)
* Fixed bug causing screen to crash when changing credential type dropdown in launch prompt modal (AAP-11443)
* Fixed an issue with slow database 'UPDATE' statements when using nested tasks(include_tasks) causing task manager timeout (AAP-12585)
* Fixed bug where adding new labels to a job through prompting didn't work (AAP-14205)
* Re-enabled Pendo support by providing the correct pendo api key (AAP-14214)
* Added noopener and noreferrer to Controller UI links that were missing it (AAP-14346)
* Updated links to docs from subscriptions page to reflect only major version being used (AAP-14376)
* Turned off autocomplete on remaining Controller ui forms that were missing that attribute (AAP-14443)
* Fixed bug where forms provided in the custom login info would render and execute. (AAP-14627)
Other changes:
* Initial release of aap-metrics-utility (AAP-14116)
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.See Also
http://www.nessus.org/u?64fba682
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 194251
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-4590.nasl
Version: 1.2
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
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: 3.0
Vendor
Vendor Severity: Moderate
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.5
Temporal Score: 4.1
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-3971
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.4
Temporal Score: 4.7
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:automation-controller-cli, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:automation-controller-ui, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:automation-controller, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:automation-controller-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:automation-controller-venv-tower, 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: 8/9/2023
Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/3/2023
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2023-3971