RHSA-2021:3473 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat Automation Platform 1.2.5.

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 integrates Red Hat’s automation suite
consisting of Red Hat Ansible Tower, Red Hat Ansible Engine, and use-case
specific capabilities for Microsoft Windows,network, security, and more,
along with Software-as-a-Service (SaaS)-based capabilities and features for
organization-wide effectiveness.

Security Fix(es):

• python-urllib3: Catastrophic backtracking in URL authority parser (CVE-2021-33503)

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:

This update fixes various bugs and adds enhancements. Documentation for
these changes is available from the Release Notes document linked to in the
References section.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 1.2 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 1.2 for RHEL 7 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1968074 - CVE-2021-33503 python-urllib3: ReDoS in the parsing of authority part of URL

CVEs

• CVE-2021-33503

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_ansible_automation_platform/1.2/html/red_hat_ansible_automation_platform_release_notes/index