RHSA-2023:4340 - Security Advisory

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):

• automation controller: Html injection in custom login info (CVE-2023-3971)

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:

• Org admin users are no longer shown an error on Instances list. (AAP-11195)
• Fixed workflow job within workflow approval to display correct details. (AAP-11433)
• Credential name search in ad-hoc commands prompt no longer requires case-sensitive input. (AAP-11442)
• The 'Back to list' button in the controller UI now maintains previous search filters. (AAP-11527)
• Topology view and Instances are only available as sidebar menu options to System Administrators and System Auditors. (AAP-11585)
• Fixed the frequency of the scheduler to run on the correct day of the week as specified by the user. (AAP-11776)
• Fixed an issue with slow database 'UPDATE' statements when using nested tasks(include_tasks) causing task manager timeout. (AAP-12586)
• Added setting to enable queuing for Rsyslog to handle higher work volumes(LOG_AGGREGATOR_ACTION_MAX_DISK_USAGE_GB) (AAP-12726)
• Allow execution and hop nodes to be added to VM-based Controller installations from the UI (AAP-12849)
• Add awx-manage command for creating future events table partitions (AAP-12907)
• Re-enabled Pendo support by providing the correct pendo api key (AAP-13415)
• Fix for filter experience when assigning access to teams: In the dialog for granting teams to access a resource, it should be possible to filter teams using partial names. (AAP-13557)
• Fixed bug where a weekly rrule string without a BYDAY would result in the UI throwing a TypeError (AAP-13670)
• Fix server error that happens when deleting workflow jobs ran before event partitioning migration (AAP-13806)
• Added api reference documentation for new bulk api endpoint. (AAP-13980)
• Fixed bug where forms provided in the custom login info would render and execute. (AAP-14013)
• Fix issue where related items were not visible in some cases: job template instance groups, organization galaxy credentials, and organization instance groups. (AAP-14057)

Solution

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Affected Products

• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9 s390x
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9 aarch64
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8 s390x
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2226965 - CVE-2023-3971 Controller: Html injection in custom login info

CVEs

• CVE-2023-3971

References

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