RHSA-2024:10770 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Execution Environments

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):

• ansible-core: Unsafe Tagging Bypass via hostvars Object in Ansible-Core (CVE-2024-11079)

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:

• ansible-core has been updated to 2.15.13 (ee-minimal 2.15 stream)
• ansible-core has been updated to 2.16.14 (ee-minimal 2.16 stream)
• ansible-core has been updated to 2.17.7 (ee-minimal 2.17 stream)
• ansible-core has been updated to 2.18.1 (ee-minimal 2.18 stream)

Solution

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Execution Environments

Affected Products

• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Text-Only Advisories for RHEL 8 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2325171 - CVE-2024-11079 ansible-core: Unsafe Tagging Bypass via hostvars Object in Ansible-Core

CVEs

• CVE-2019-12900
• CVE-2024-8775
• CVE-2024-9902
• CVE-2024-10041
• CVE-2024-10963
• CVE-2024-11079
• CVE-2024-45296
• CVE-2024-45801
• CVE-2024-50602

References

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