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RHEL 8 / 9 : Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 Product Security and Bug Fix Update (Important) (RHSA-2025:3123)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 233527
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Synopsis
The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.Description
The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 / 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:3123 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 sandbox breakout through attr filter selecting format method (CVE-2025-27516)
* python3-jinja2/python39-jinja2: 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(s) listed in the References section.
Updates and fixes for automation controller:
* Fixed an issue where Insights projects were failing on OCP AAP, due to incorrectly specifying the 'extra vars' path (AAP-41875)
* Fixed an issue where the system auditor could download the execution node install bundle (AAP-39799)
* Fixed the behavior of the project's 'requirements.yml' to no longer revert to a prior state in a cluster (AAP-39228)
* automation-controller has been updated to 4.5.20
Updates and fixes for automation hub:
* Added a migration file to set the default value of retain_repo_versions to 1 for validated repositories (AAP-42004)
* automation-hub/python3-galaxy-ng/python39-galaxy-ng has been updated to 4.9.3
* python3-pulpcore/python39-pulpcore has been updated to 3.28.37
Additional changes:
* python3-jinja2/python39-jinja2 has been updated to 3.1.6
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 affected automation-controller-venv-tower, python3-jinja2 and / or python39-jinja2 packages.See Also
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2350190
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 233527
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-3123.nasl
Version: 1.1
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
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: 6.7
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: 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: 3/24/2025
Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/5/2025
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2025-27516