Issued:

2024-02-07

Updated:

2024-02-07

RHSA-2024:0733 - Moderate: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 Product Security and Bug Fix Update

Synopsis

Moderate: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 Product Security and Bug Fix Update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

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.

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):

• ansible-core: possible information leak in tasks that ignore ANSIBLE_NO_LOG configuration (CVE-2024-0690)

• automation-controller: urllib3: Cookie request header isn't stripped during cross-origin (CVE-2023-43804)

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 jobs stuck in pending state after connection to database recover (AAP-19618)
• Added secure flag option for userLoggedIn cookie if 'SESSION_COOKIE_SECURE' is set to 'True' (AAP-19602)
• Fixed 'twilio_backend.py' to send SMS to multiple destinations (AAP-19284)
• Fixed rsyslogd from unexpectedly stop sending events to Splunk HTTP Collector and recover rsyslog from 4xx errors (AAP-19069)
• Fixed a TypeError in the Logging Settings Edit form of the automation controller user interface to no longer render the form inputs inaccessible (AAP-18960)
• Fixed Delinea (previously: Thycotic) DevOps Secrets Vault credential plugin to work with python-dsv-sdk>=1.0.4 (AAP-18701)
• Updated schedule Prompt on launch fields to persist while editing (AAP-13859)
• automation-controller has been updated to 4.5.1

Note: The 2.4-5 installer/setup should be used to update automation controller to 4.5.1

Updates and fixes for ansible-core:

• ansible-core has been updated to 2.15.9

Updates and fixes for installer, setup and setup bundle:

• Fixed the version check when pinning EDA to an older version (AAP-19399)
• Fixed rsyslogd from unexpectedly stop sending events to Splunk HTTP Collector and recover rsyslog from 4xx errors (AAP-19069)
• Automation Hub now uses system crypto-policies in nginx (AAP-18974)
• installer, setup and setup bundle have been updated to 2.4-5

Additionally, setup bundle 2.4-5 includes the updates released in the following advisories:

RHSA-2024:0322

• python3-dynaconf/python39-dynaconf 3.1.12-2
• python3-gitpython/python39-gitpython 3.1.40
• python3-twisted/python39-twisted 23.10.0

RHBA-2023:7863

• container images

Solution

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• automation-controller-cli-4.5.1-1.el9ap.noarch.rpm
• automation-controller-4.5.1-1.el9ap.aarch64.rpm
• automation-controller-4.5.1-1.el8ap.ppc64le.rpm
• automation-controller-4.5.1-1.el9ap.src.rpm
• ansible-core-2.15.9-1.el9ap.noarch.rpm
• automation-controller-4.5.1-1.el9ap.x86_64.rpm
• automation-controller-venv-tower-4.5.1-1.el9ap.x86_64.rpm
• automation-controller-server-4.5.1-1.el8ap.noarch.rpm
• automation-controller-4.5.1-1.el9ap.s390x.rpm
• automation-controller-ui-4.5.1-1.el9ap.noarch.rpm
• automation-controller-ui-4.5.1-1.el8ap.noarch.rpm
• automation-controller-4.5.1-1.el9ap.ppc64le.rpm
• ansible-automation-platform-installer-2.4-5.el9ap.noarch.rpm
• automation-controller-venv-tower-4.5.1-1.el8ap.x86_64.rpm
• automation-controller-venv-tower-4.5.1-1.el8ap.aarch64.rpm
• ansible-core-2.15.9-1.el8ap.noarch.rpm
• automation-controller-server-4.5.1-1.el9ap.noarch.rpm
• ansible-core-2.15.9-1.el8ap.src.rpm
• automation-controller-4.5.1-1.el8ap.aarch64.rpm
• ansible-test-2.15.9-1.el9ap.noarch.rpm
• automation-controller-venv-tower-4.5.1-1.el8ap.s390x.rpm
• ansible-test-2.15.9-1.el8ap.noarch.rpm
• ansible-automation-platform-installer-2.4-5.el8ap.src.rpm
• automation-controller-4.5.1-1.el8ap.src.rpm
• automation-controller-venv-tower-4.5.1-1.el9ap.ppc64le.rpm
• ansible-automation-platform-installer-2.4-5.el8ap.noarch.rpm
• ansible-automation-platform-installer-2.4-5.el9ap.src.rpm
• automation-controller-4.5.1-1.el8ap.s390x.rpm
• automation-controller-4.5.1-1.el8ap.x86_64.rpm
• ansible-core-2.15.9-1.el9ap.src.rpm
• automation-controller-venv-tower-4.5.1-1.el9ap.aarch64.rpm
• automation-controller-venv-tower-4.5.1-1.el8ap.ppc64le.rpm
• automation-controller-cli-4.5.1-1.el8ap.noarch.rpm
• automation-controller-venv-tower-4.5.1-1.el9ap.s390x.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 2242493
• This content is not included.BZ - 2259013

CVEs

• CVE-2023-43804
• CVE-2024-0690

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0322
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2023:7863

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.