RHSA-2023:4991 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.3

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. 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: GitPython: Insecure non-multi options in clone and clone_from is not blocked (CVE-2023-40267)

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:

• ansible-core has been updated to 2.14.9 (AAP-15270)
• automation-controller has been updated to 4.3.13 (AAP-15548)
• automation controller: Fix bug that can cause a deadlock on shutdown when redis is unavailable. (AAP-14217)

Solution

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Affected Products

• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.3 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.3 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Inside 1.1 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Inside 1.1 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.0 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.0 for RHEL 8 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2231474 - CVE-2023-40267 GitPython: Insecure non-multi options in clone and clone_from is not blocked

CVEs

• CVE-2023-40267

References

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