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RHEL 8 / 9 : Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 Product Release Update (Moderate) (RHSA-2024:9894)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 211764
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-2024:9894 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: Exposure of Sensitive Information in Ansible Vault Files Due to Improper Logging (CVE-2024-8775)
* ansible-core: ansible-core user may read/write unauthorized content (CVE-2024-9902)
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:
Automation Platform UI
* Fix filtering out hosts on inventory group (AAP-34752)
* automation-gateway has been updated to 2.5.3-2
Container-based Ansible Automation Platform
* Fix issue when port value isn't defined in the gateway_main_url variable (AAP-34716)
* Don't add port to image URLs when using default value (AAP-34070)
* containerized installer setup has been updated to 2.5-4
RPM-based Ansible Automation Platform
* Fix issue not setting up gpg agent socket properly when multiple hub nodes are configured (AAP-34067)
* ansible-automation-platform-installer and installer setup have been updated to 2.5-5
Additional changes:
* ansible-core has been updated to 2.16.13
* molecule has been updated to 24.9.0-2
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 package.See Also
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2312119
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2318271
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 211764
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-9894.nasl
Version: 1.1
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
Published: 11/24/2024
Updated: 11/24/2024
Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.3
Vendor
Vendor Severity: Moderate
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 5.7
Temporal Score: 4.2
Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:P
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-9902
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.3
Temporal Score: 5.5
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ansible-core, 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: 11/18/2024
Vulnerability Publication Date: 9/14/2024
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2024-8775, CVE-2024-9902