RHEL 8 / 9 : Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 Product Security and Bug Fix Update (Important) (RHSA-2025:0340)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 214232

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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-2025:0340 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: Potential SQL injection in HasKey(lhs, rhs) on Oracle (CVE-2024-53908)
* automation-controller: Potential denial-of-service in django.utils.html.strip_tags() (CVE-2024-53907)
* automation-controller: Denial of Service through Data corruption in gRPC-C++ (CVE-2024-11407)
* automation-gateway: nanoid mishandles non-integer values (CVE-2024-55565)
* python3.11-aiohttp: aiohttp vulnerable to request smuggling due to incorrect parsing of chunk extensions (CVE-2024-52304)

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:

Platform
* Fixed 'not found' error that occurred occasionally when navigating form wizards (AAP-37495)
* Fixed an issue where ID_KEY attribute was improperly used to determine the username field in social auth pipelines (AAP-38300)
* Fixed an issue where the X-DAB-JW-TOKEN header message would flood logs (AAP-38169)
* Fixed an issue where authenticator could create a userid and return a non-viable authenticator_uid (AAP-38021)
* Enhanced the status API, /api/gateway/v1/status/, from the services property within the JSON to an array (AAP-37903)
* Fixes an issue where a private key was displayed in plain text when downloading the OpenAPI schema file.
NOTE: This was not the private key used by gateway, just a random default key (AAP-37843)

Automation controller
* Added 'job_lifecycle' as a choice in loggers to send externally and added 'organization_id' field to logs related to a job (AAP-37537)
* Fixed date comparison mismatch for traceback from 'host_metric_summary_monthly' task (AAP-37487)
* Fixed scheduled jobs with count set to a non-zero value to no longer run unexpectedly (AAP-37290)
* Fixed the POST operation to '/api/controller/login/' via gateway to no longer result in a fatal error (AAP-37235)
* Fixed the behavior of the project's 'requirements.yml' to no longer revert to a prior state in a cluster (AAP-37228)
* Fixed occasional error while creating event partition table before starting a job, when lots of jobs are launched quickly (AAP-37227)
* Fixed the named URL to no longer return a 404 error code while launching a job template (AAP-37025)
* Updated receptor to clean up temporary receptor files after a job completes on nodes (AAP-36904)
* Fixed the POST operation to '/api/controller/login/' via gateway to no longer result in a fatal error (AAP-33911)
* automation-controller has been updated to 4.6.6

Container-based Ansible Automation Platform
* Fixed an issue where the provided inventory file sample for growth inventories could cause the installation to stall on low resource systems (AAP-38372)
* Fixed an issue where the throttle capacity of controller in growth topology installation would allow for performance degradation (AAP-38207)
* Fixed an issue where the receptor TLS certificate content was not validated during the preflight role execution ensuring that the x509 Subject Alt Name (SAN) field contains the required ISO Object Identifier (OID) (AAP-37880)
* TLS certificate and key files are now validated during the preflight role execution (AAP-37845)
* Fixed an issue where the Postgresql SSL mode variables were not validated during the preflight role execution (AAP-37352)
* containerized installer setup has been updated to 2.5-8

RPM-based Ansible Automation Platform
* Fixed an issue where adding a new automation hub host to upgraded environment has caused the installation to fail (AAP-38204)
* Fixed an issue where the link to the documents in the installer README.md was broken (AAP-37627)
* Updated nginx configuration to properly return API status for Event-Driven Ansible event stream service (AAP-32816)
* ansible-automation-platform-installer and installer setup have been updated to 2.5-7

Additional changes:
* Installing ansible-core no longer installs python3-jmespath on RHEL 8 (AAP-18251)
* ansible-core has been updated to 2.16.14-2
* automation-gateway has been updated to 2.5.20250115
* python3.11-aiohttp has been updated to 3.10.11 along with its dependencies
* python3.11-django-ansible-base has been updated to 2.5.20250115
* python3.11-galaxy-importer has been updated to 0.4.27
* python3.11-pulpcore has been updated to 3.49.29

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, automation-gateway-server and / or python3.11-aiohttp packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 214232

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-0340.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 1/15/2025

Updated: 1/15/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-53908

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Threat Score: 3.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-11407

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:automation-gateway-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:automation-controller-venv-tower, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3.11-aiohttp

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: 1/15/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/18/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-11407, CVE-2024-52304, CVE-2024-53907, CVE-2024-53908, CVE-2024-55565

CWE: 1169, 444, 682, 835, 89

RHSA: 2025:0340

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