RHSA-2024:3781 - 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: aiohttp: DoS when trying to parse malformed POST requests (CVE-2024-30251)
• automation-controller: Django: Potential regular expression denial-of-service in django.utils.text.Truncator.words() (CVE-2024-27351)
• automation-controller: pip: Mercurial configuration injectable in repo revision when installing via pip (CVE-2023-5752)
• automation-controller: pydantic: regular expression denial of service via crafted email string (CVE-2024-3772)
• automation-hub, python3/python39-galaxy-ng: follow-redirects: Possible credential leak (CVE-2024-28849)
• python3/python39-aiohttp: DoS when trying to parse malformed POST requests (CVE-2024-30251)
• python3/python39-aiohttp: XSS on index pages for static file handling (CVE-2024-27306)
• python3/python39-black: ReDoS via the lines_with_leading_tabs_expanded() function in strings.py file (CVE-2024-21503)
• python3/python39-cryptography: NULL pointer dereference with pkcs12.serialize_key_and_certificates when called with a non-matching certificate and private key and an hmac_hash override (CVE-2024-26130)
• python3/python39-cryptography: NULL-dereference when loading PKCS7 certificates (CVE-2023-49083)
• python3/python39-cryptography: NULL-dereference when loading PKCS7 certificates (CVE-2023-49083)
• python3/python39-gunicorn: HTTP Request Smuggling due to improper validation of Transfer-Encoding headers (CVE-2024-1135)
• python3/python39-idna: potential DoS via resource consumption via specially crafted inputs to idna.encode() (CVE-2024-3651)
• python3/python39-jinja2: accepts keys containing non-attribute characters (CVE-2024-34064)
• python3/python39-pillow: buffer overflow in _imagingcms.c (CVE-2024-28219)
• python3/python39-pillow: Arbitrary Code Execution via the environment parameter (CVE-2023-50447)
• python3/python39-pydantic: regular expression denial of service via crafted email string (CVE-2024-3772)
• python3/python39-requests: subsequent requests to the same host ignore cert verification (CVE-2024-35195)
• python3/python39-social-auth-app-django: Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity in social-auth-app-django (CVE-2024-32879)
• python3/python39-sqlparse: parsing heavily nested list leads to denial of service (CVE-2024-4340)
• receptor: golang: crypto/x509: Verify panics on certificates with an unknown public key algorithm (CVE-2024-24783)
• receptor: golang: net/http, x/net/http2: unlimited number of CONTINUATION frames causes DoS (CVE-2023-45288)
• receptor: golang: net/http: memory exhaustion in Request.ParseMultipartForm (CVE-2023-45290)

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 for automation controller:

• Fixed Redis connection leak on version 4.5.6 (AAP-24286)
• automation-controller has been updated to 4.5.7

Updates and fixes for automation hub:

• Fixed repository sync issues (AAH-3111, AAH-3218)
• automation-hub/python3-galaxy-ng/python39-galaxy-ng have been updated to 4.9.2

Additional changes:

• ansible-core has been updated to 2.15.11
• automation-eda-controller has been updated to 1.0.7
• installer and setup have been updated to 2.4-7
• receptor has been updated to 1.4.8

For more details about the updates and fixes included in this release, refer to the Release Notes.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

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

For the update to take effect, all applications using Jinja2 must be restarted.

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
• Red Hat Ansible Inside 1.2 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Inside 1.2 for RHEL 9 s390x
• Red Hat Ansible Inside 1.2 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Ansible Inside 1.2 for RHEL 9 aarch64
• Red Hat Ansible Inside 1.2 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Inside 1.2 for RHEL 8 s390x
• Red Hat Ansible Inside 1.2 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Ansible Inside 1.2 for RHEL 8 aarch64
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.1 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.1 for RHEL 9 s390x
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.1 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.1 for RHEL 9 aarch64
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.1 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.1 for RHEL 8 s390x
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.1 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.1 for RHEL 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2250765 - CVE-2023-5752 pip: Mercurial configuration injectable in repo revision when installing via pip
• BZ - 2255331 - CVE-2023-49083 python-cryptography: NULL-dereference when loading PKCS7 certificates
• BZ - 2259479 - CVE-2023-50447 pillow:Arbitrary Code Execution via the environment parameter
• BZ - 2266045 - CVE-2024-27351 python-django: Potential regular expression denial-of-service in django.utils.text.Truncator.words()
• BZ - 2268017 - CVE-2023-45290 golang: net/http: memory exhaustion in Request.ParseMultipartForm
• BZ - 2268019 - CVE-2024-24783 golang: crypto/x509: Verify panics on certificates with an unknown public key algorithm
• BZ - 2268273 - CVE-2023-45288 golang: net/http, x/net/http2: unlimited number of CONTINUATION frames causes DoS
• BZ - 2269576 - CVE-2024-28849 follow-redirects: Possible credential leak
• BZ - 2269617 - CVE-2024-26130 python-cryptography: NULL pointer dereference with pkcs12.serialize_key_and_certificates when called with a non-matching certificate and private key and an hmac_hash override
• BZ - 2270236 - CVE-2024-21503 psf/black: ReDoS via the lines_with_leading_tabs_expanded() function in strings.py file
• BZ - 2272563 - CVE-2024-28219 python-pillow: buffer overflow in _imagingcms.c
• BZ - 2274779 - CVE-2024-3651 python-idna: potential DoS via resource consumption via specially crafted inputs to idna.encode()
• BZ - 2275106 - CVE-2024-3772 python-pydantic: regular expression denial of service via crafted email string
• BZ - 2275280 - CVE-2024-1135 python-gunicorn: HTTP Request Smuggling due to improper validation of Transfer-Encoding headers
• BZ - 2275989 - CVE-2024-27306 aiohttp: XSS on index pages for static file handling
• BZ - 2277035 - CVE-2024-32879 python-social-auth: Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity in social-auth-app-django
• BZ - 2278038 - CVE-2024-4340 sqlparse: parsing heavily nested list leads to denial of service
• BZ - 2278710 - CVE-2024-30251 aiohttp: DoS when trying to parse malformed POST requests
• BZ - 2279476 - CVE-2024-34064 jinja2: accepts keys containing non-attribute characters
• BZ - 2282114 - CVE-2024-35195 requests: subsequent requests to the same host ignore cert verification
• AAH-3111 - Calculated digest does not equal passed in digest when syncing collection jfrog.ansible
• AAP-22461 - [2.4 Backport] AAP-22441 Invalid script in awx venv

CVEs

• CVE-2023-5752
• CVE-2023-45288
• CVE-2023-45290
• CVE-2023-49083
• CVE-2023-50447
• CVE-2024-1135
• CVE-2024-3651
• CVE-2024-3772
• CVE-2024-4340
• CVE-2024-21503
• CVE-2024-24783
• CVE-2024-26130
• CVE-2024-27306
• CVE-2024-27351
• CVE-2024-28219
• CVE-2024-28849
• CVE-2024-30251
• CVE-2024-32879
• CVE-2024-34064
• CVE-2024-35195

References

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