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.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 194251

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-4590.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 4/28/2024

Updated: 6/4/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

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

CWE: 80

IAVA: 2023-A-0390

RHSA: 2023:4590

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