Issued:

2025-01-27

Updated:

2025-01-27

RHSA-2025:0721 - Important: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 Product Security and Bug Fix Update

Synopsis

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

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

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 Important. 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):

• 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

Solution

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• automation-controller-venv-tower-4.5.17-1.el8ap.ppc64le.rpm
• ansible-automation-platform-installer-2.4-9.el8ap.src.rpm
• python-jinja2-3.1.5-1.el9ap.src.rpm
• automation-controller-4.5.17-1.el9ap.s390x.rpm
• automation-controller-4.5.17-1.el9ap.x86_64.rpm
• automation-controller-venv-tower-4.5.17-1.el8ap.s390x.rpm
• python39-pulpcore-3.28.36-1.el8ap.noarch.rpm
• automation-controller-ui-4.5.17-1.el9ap.noarch.rpm
• automation-controller-venv-tower-4.5.17-1.el8ap.x86_64.rpm
• automation-controller-4.5.17-1.el8ap.s390x.rpm
• automation-controller-4.5.17-1.el9ap.aarch64.rpm
• automation-controller-venv-tower-4.5.17-1.el9ap.x86_64.rpm
• automation-controller-server-4.5.17-1.el8ap.noarch.rpm
• automation-controller-ui-4.5.17-1.el8ap.noarch.rpm
• ansible-automation-platform-installer-2.4-9.el9ap.noarch.rpm
• python3x-jinja2-3.1.5-1.el8ap.src.rpm
• python-pulpcore-3.28.36-1.el9ap.src.rpm
• python3x-pulpcore-3.28.36-1.el8ap.src.rpm
• automation-controller-4.5.17-1.el9ap.src.rpm
• automation-controller-venv-tower-4.5.17-1.el9ap.ppc64le.rpm
• python39-jinja2-3.1.5-1.el8ap.noarch.rpm
• automation-controller-4.5.17-1.el8ap.x86_64.rpm
• python3-jinja2-3.1.5-1.el9ap.noarch.rpm
• ansible-automation-platform-installer-2.4-9.el8ap.noarch.rpm
• automation-controller-4.5.17-1.el8ap.aarch64.rpm
• automation-controller-cli-4.5.17-1.el8ap.noarch.rpm
• python3-pulpcore-3.28.36-1.el9ap.noarch.rpm
• automation-controller-4.5.17-1.el8ap.ppc64le.rpm
• automation-controller-cli-4.5.17-1.el9ap.noarch.rpm
• ansible-automation-platform-installer-2.4-9.el9ap.src.rpm
• automation-controller-4.5.17-1.el8ap.src.rpm
• automation-controller-4.5.17-1.el9ap.ppc64le.rpm
• automation-controller-server-4.5.17-1.el9ap.noarch.rpm
• automation-controller-venv-tower-4.5.17-1.el8ap.aarch64.rpm
• automation-controller-venv-tower-4.5.17-1.el9ap.s390x.rpm
• automation-controller-venv-tower-4.5.17-1.el9ap.aarch64.rpm

Fixes

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CVEs

• CVE-2024-53908
• CVE-2024-56201
• CVE-2024-56326

References

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

Additional information

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