RHEL 8 / 9 : Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 Product Security and Bug Fix Update (Important) (RHSA-2025:0721)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 214710

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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-2025:0721 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: Jinja has a sandbox breakout through indirect reference to format method (CVE-2024-56326)
* automation-controller: Jinja has a sandbox breakout through malicious filenames (CVE-2024-56201)
* automation-controller: Potential SQL injection in HasKey(lhs, rhs) on Oracle (CVE-2024-53908)
* python3-jinja2/python39-jinja2: Jinja has a sandbox breakout through indirect reference to format method (CVE-2024-56326)
* python3-jinja2/python39-jinja2: Jinja has a sandbox breakout through malicious filenames (CVE-2024-56201)

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 for automation controller:
* Fixed an issue where the traceback from host_metric_summary_monthly task caused a type comparison error (AAP-37486)
* Fixed an issue where the order of source inventories was not respected by the ansible.controller collection (AAP-38511)
* automation-controller has been updated to 4.5.17

Updates and fixes for installer and setup:
* Fixed an issue where setting the pg_host= without any other context would result in an empty HOST section of settings.py in controller (AAP-38030)
* Fixed an issue where Automation Hub backup would fail when automationhub_pg_port= (AAP-31261)
* Fixed an issue where providing the database installation a custom port would break the installation of postgres (AAP-31260)
* Setup script now warns if provided log path does not have write permission and fails if default path does not have write permission (AAP-18204)
* installer and setup have been updated to 2.4-9

Additional fixes:
* python3-jinja2/python39-jinja2 has been updated to 3.1.5
* python3-pulpcore/python39-pulpcore has been updated to 3.28.26

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, python3-jinja2 and / or python39-jinja2 packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 214710

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-0721.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 1/28/2025

Updated: 1/28/2025

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: 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: 5.4

Threat Score: 2

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2024-56326

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-jinja2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3x-jinja2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-jinja2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:automation-controller-venv-tower, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python-jinja2, 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: 1/27/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 12/6/2024

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-53908, CVE-2024-56201, CVE-2024-56326

CWE: 150, 693, 89

RHSA: 2025:0721

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