Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2021:0780 - Security Advisory
Issued:
2021-03-09
Updated:
2021-03-09

RHSA-2021:0780 - Security Advisory

Synopsis

Important: Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.8.2-1 - Container security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

Topic

Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.8.2-1 - Container

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

Security Fix(es):

  • Addressed a security issue which can allow a malicious playbook author to elevate to the awx user from outside the isolated environment: CVE-2021-20253
  • Upgraded to a more recent version of Django to address CVE-2021-3281.
  • Upgraded to a more recent version of autobahn to address CVE-2020-35678.

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.

Bug Fix(es):

  • Upgraded to the latest oVirt inventory plugin to resolve a number of inventory syncing issues that can occur on RHEL7.
  • Upgraded to the latest theforeman.foreman inventory plugin to resolve a few bugs and performance regressions.
  • Fixed several issues related to how Tower rotates its log files.
  • Fixed a bug which can prevent Tower from installing on RHEL8 with certain non-en_US.UTF-8 locales.
  • Fixed a bug which can cause unanticipated delays in certain playbook output.
  • Fixed a bug which can cause job runs to fail for playbooks that print certain types of raw binary data.
  • Fixed a bug which can cause unnecessary records in the Activity Stream when Automation Analytics data is collected.
  • Fixed a bug which can cause Tower PostgreSQL backups to fail when a non-default PostgreSQL username is specified.
  • Fixed a bug which can intermittently cause access to encrypted Tower settings to fail, resulting in failed job launches.
  • Fixed a bug which can cause certain long-running jobs running on isolated nodes to unexpectedly fail.

Solution

For information on upgrading Ansible Tower, reference the Ansible Tower Upgrade and Migration Guide: https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-tower/latest/html/upgrade-migration-guide/index.html

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Text-Only Advisories for RHEL 7 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 1911314 - CVE-2020-35678 python-autobahn: allows redirect header injection
  • BZ - 1919969 - CVE-2021-3281 django: Potential directory-traversal via archive.extract()
  • BZ - 1928847 - CVE-2021-20253 ansible-tower: Privilege escalation via job isolation escape

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