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RHEL 9 : Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1 (openstack-ansible-core) (RHSA-2025:3371)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 233501

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1 (openstack-ansible-core).

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:3371 advisory.

 An ansible-core rebuild for OpenStack based on python 3.9.

 Security Fix(es):

 * Jinja sandbox breakout through attr filter selecting format method (CVE-2025-27516)

 For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the RHEL Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1 (openstack-ansible-core) package based on the guidance in RHSA-2025:3371.

See Also

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2350190

http://www.nessus.org/u?7be15e41

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:3371

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 233501

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-3371.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/29/2025

Updated: 3/29/2025

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: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-27516

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.3

Temporal Score: 6.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:openstack-ansible-core, 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: 3/27/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/5/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-27516

CWE: 1336

RHSA: 2025:3371