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RHEL 8 / 9 : Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 Product Security and Bug Fix Update (Moderate) (RHSA-2024:7312)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 207856
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-2024:7312 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: djangorestframework: Cross-site Scripting (XSS) via break_long_headers (CVE-2024-21520)
* automation-controller: twisted: Reflected XSS via HTML Injection in Redirect Response (CVE-2024-41810)
* automation-controller: urllib3: proxy-authorization request header is not stripped during cross-origin redirects (CVE-2024-37891)
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 Galaxy credentials to be correctly ordered when assigning them using 'ansible.controller.organization' (AAP-31398)
* Fixed gather analytics failure due to missing '_unpartitioned_main_jobevent' table (AAP-31053)
* automation-controller has been updated to 4.5.12
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
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2292788
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2294457
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2300497
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 207856
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-7312.nasl
Version: 1.1
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
Published: 9/27/2024
Updated: 9/27/2024
Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Low
Score: 3.8
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-2024-41810
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.1
Temporal Score: 5.3
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:automation-controller-venv-tower
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: 9/27/2024
Vulnerability Publication Date: 6/17/2024