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RHEL 8 / 9 : Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 Product Security and Bug Fix Update (Moderate) (RHSA-2023:7773)
high Nessus Plugin ID 194442
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Synopsis
The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.Description
The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 / 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:7773 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):
* ansible-core: Template Injection (CVE-2023-5764)
* python3-galaxy-importer/python39-galaxy-importer: insecure galaxy-importer tarfile extraction (CVE-2023-5189)
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 2.15.8
* python3-galaxy-importer/python39-galaxy-importer has been updated to 0.4.18
Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.
Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.
Solution
Update the affected ansible-core, python3-galaxy-importer and / or python39-galaxy-importer packages.See Also
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2234387
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2247629
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 194442
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-7773.nasl
Version: 1.1
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
Published: 4/29/2024
Updated: 5/30/2024
Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.7
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.8
Temporal Score: 6.1
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-5189
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 7.8
Temporal Score: 7
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-5764
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ansible-core, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-galaxy-importer, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-galaxy-importer, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3x-galaxy-importer, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-galaxy-importer, 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: 12/13/2023
Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/14/2023
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2023-5189, CVE-2023-5764