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RHEL 8 / 9 : Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 Product Security and Bug Fix Update (Moderate) (RHSA-2024:4522)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 202258
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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 a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:4522 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: jinja2: accepts keys containing non-attribute characters (CVE-2024-34064)
* automation-controller: jwcrypto: malicious JWE token can cause denial of service (CVE-2024-28102)
* automation-controller: requests: subsequent requests to the same host ignore cert verification (CVE-2024-35195)
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.
Updates and fixes for automation controller:
* Fixed a bug where the controller does not respect DATABASES[OPTIONS] setting, if specified (AAP-26398)
* Changed all uses of ImplicitRoleField to perform an on_delete=SET_NULL (AAP-25136)
* Fixed the HostMetric automated counter to display the correct values (AAP-25115)
* Added Django logout redirects (AAP-24543)
* automation-controller has been updated to 4.5.8
Additional changes:
* aap-metrics-utility has been updated to 0.3.0 (AAP-25875)
* ansible-core has been updated to 2.15.12 (AAP-25536)
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 automation-controller-venv-tower package.See Also
http://www.nessus.org/u?1b906d44
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2268758
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2279476
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 202258
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-4522.nasl
Version: 1.2
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
Published: 7/12/2024
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: 5.2
Vendor
Vendor Severity: Moderate
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.4
Temporal Score: 4.7
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-34064
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.6
Temporal Score: 4.9
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-35195
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:automation-controller-venv-tower, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
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: 7/12/2024
Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/6/2024