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RHEL 8 / 9 : Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 Product Release Update (Moderate) (RHSA-2024:8534)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 209894

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-2024:8534 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: Django: Memory exhaustion in django.utils.numberformat.floatformat() (CVE-2024-41989)
 * automation-controller: Django: Potential denial-of-service vulnerability in django.utils.html.urlize() (CVE-2024-45230)
 * automation-gateway: XSS on automation-gateway (CVE-2024-10033)
 * receptor: quic-go: memory exhaustion attack against QUIC's connection ID mechanism (CVE-2024-22189)

 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 included:

 * With this update, upgrades from Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 to 2.5 are supported for RPM and Operator-based deployments for Automation controller and Automation hub. For more information on how to upgrade, refer to the Upgrading section of the AAP landing page. (ANSTRAT-809)

 Container-based Ansible Automation Platform
 * The TLS Certificate Authority private key can now use a passphrase. (AAP-33594)
 * Automation hub is populated with container images (decision and execution environments) and Ansible collections. (AAP-33759)
 * The Automation controller, Event-Driven Ansible, and automation hub legacy UIs now display a redirect page to the Platform UI rather than a blank page. (AAP-33794)
 * Fixed the uninstall playbook execution when the environment was already uninstalled. (AAP-32981)
 * containerized installer setup has been updated to 2.5-3

 RPM-based Ansible Automation Platform
 * Added platform Redis to RPM-based Ansible Automation Platform. This allows a 6 node cluster for a Redis high availability (HA) deployment. (AAP-33773)
 * Removed the variable aap_caching_mtls and replaced it with redis_disable_tls and redis_disable_mtls which are boolean flags that disable Redis server TLS and Redis client certificate authentication.
 (AAP-33773)
 * An informative redirect page is now shown when going to automation controller, Event-Driven Ansible, or automation hub URL. (AAP-33827)
 * ansible-automation-platform-installer and installer setup have been updated to 2.5-4

 Additional changes:
 * automation-controller has been updated to 4.6.2
 * automation-eda-controller has been updated to 1.1.2
 * automation-gateway has been updated to 2.5.3
 * automation-hub/python3.11-galaxy-ng has been updated to 4.10.1
 * python3.11-django-ansible-base has been updated to 2.5.3
 * receptor has been updated to 1.4.9

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 packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2273513

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2302433

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2314485

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2319162

http://www.nessus.org/u?193e62ca

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8534

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 209894

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-8534.nasl

Version: 1.2

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 10/30/2024

Updated: 10/31/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

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-2024-10033

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:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:automation-gateway-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:receptor, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:automation-controller-venv-tower, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:receptorctl, 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: 10/28/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/4/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-10033, CVE-2024-22189, CVE-2024-41989, CVE-2024-45230

CWE: 400, 770, 79

RHSA: 2024:8534