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A Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 Product Security and Bug Fix Update has been released.



[RHSA-2023:4692-01] Moderate: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 Product Security and Bug Fix Update


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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Moderate: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 Product Security and Bug Fix Update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:4692-01
Product: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4692
Issue date: 2023-08-21
CVE Names: CVE-2023-24580 CVE-2023-36053
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1. Summary:

An update is now available for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which
gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from
the CVE link(s) in the References section.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8 - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9 - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

3. Description:

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: python-django: Potential regular expression denial
of service vulnerability in EmailValidator/URLValidator (CVE-2023-36053)
* automation-controller: python-django: Potential denial-of-service
vulnerability in file uploads (CVE-2023-24580)

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.

Additional changes for automation controller:
* automation-controller has been updated to 4.4.2 (AAP-14609)
* Changing credential types using the dropdown list in the Launch prompt
window no longer causes the screen to disappear. (AAP-11444)
* Upgraded python dependencies which include an upgrade from Django 3.2 to
4.2.3, psycopg2 to psycopg3, additional libraries as needed. Also added a
new setting in the UI exposing the ``CSRF_TRUSTED_ORIGIN`` settings.
(AAP-12345)
* Fixed slow database UPDATE statements on job events table which could
cause a task manager timeout. (AAP-12586)
* Adding new labels to a job through prompting now works as expected.
(AAP-14204)
* Added ``noopener`` and ``noreferrer`` to Controller UI links that were
missing it. (AAP-14345)
* Fixed the broken User Guide link in the Edit Subscription Details page.
(AAP-14375)
* Turned off auto-complete on remaining Controller UI forms that were
missing that attribute. (AAP-14442)
* The Add button on credentials is now accessible for users with correct
permissions. (AAP-14525)
* Fixed unexpected error with adding a new host while using a manifest with
size 10. (AAP-14675)
* Fixed the Trial toggle when using a manifest file. (AAP-14675)
* Applied environment variables from the setting ``AWX_TASK_ENV`` when
running credential lookup plugins. (AAP-14683)
* Interrupted jobs (like canceled jobs) no longer clear facts from hosts,
if the job ran on an execution node. (AAP-14878)
* Using a license that is missing a "usage" attribute no longer returns a
400 error. (AAP-14880)
* Fixed sub-keys under "data" from HashiCorp Vault Secret Lookup responses
to check for secrets, if found. (AAP-14946)
* Fixed Ansible facts to retry saving to hosts if there is a database
deadlock. (AAP-15021)

4. Solution:

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

5. Bugs fixed ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

2169402 - CVE-2023-24580 python-django: Potential denial-of-service vulnerability in file uploads
2218004 - CVE-2023-36053 python-django: Potential regular expression denial of service vulnerability in EmailValidator/URLValidator

6. Package List:

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8:

Source:
automation-controller-4.4.2-1.el8ap.src.rpm

aarch64:
automation-controller-4.4.2-1.el8ap.aarch64.rpm
automation-controller-venv-tower-4.4.2-1.el8ap.aarch64.rpm

noarch:
automation-controller-cli-4.4.2-1.el8ap.noarch.rpm
automation-controller-server-4.4.2-1.el8ap.noarch.rpm
automation-controller-ui-4.4.2-1.el8ap.noarch.rpm

ppc64le:
automation-controller-4.4.2-1.el8ap.ppc64le.rpm
automation-controller-venv-tower-4.4.2-1.el8ap.ppc64le.rpm

s390x:
automation-controller-4.4.2-1.el8ap.s390x.rpm
automation-controller-venv-tower-4.4.2-1.el8ap.s390x.rpm

x86_64:
automation-controller-4.4.2-1.el8ap.x86_64.rpm
automation-controller-venv-tower-4.4.2-1.el8ap.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9:

Source:
automation-controller-4.4.2-1.el9ap.src.rpm

aarch64:
automation-controller-4.4.2-1.el9ap.aarch64.rpm
automation-controller-venv-tower-4.4.2-1.el9ap.aarch64.rpm

noarch:
automation-controller-cli-4.4.2-1.el9ap.noarch.rpm
automation-controller-server-4.4.2-1.el9ap.noarch.rpm
automation-controller-ui-4.4.2-1.el9ap.noarch.rpm

ppc64le:
automation-controller-4.4.2-1.el9ap.ppc64le.rpm
automation-controller-venv-tower-4.4.2-1.el9ap.ppc64le.rpm

s390x:
automation-controller-4.4.2-1.el9ap.s390x.rpm
automation-controller-venv-tower-4.4.2-1.el9ap.s390x.rpm

x86_64:
automation-controller-4.4.2-1.el9ap.x86_64.rpm
automation-controller-venv-tower-4.4.2-1.el9ap.x86_64.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/

7. References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-24580
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-36053
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

8. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is [secalert@redhat.com]. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

Copyright 2023 Red Hat, Inc.

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