RHSA-2025:0777 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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: Jinja has a sandbox breakout through indirect reference to format method (CVE-2024-56326)
• automation-controller: Jinja has a sandbox breakout through malicious filenames (CVE-2024-56201)
• automation-controller: Django: potential denial-of-service vulnerability in IPv6 validation (CVE-2024-56374)
• python3.11-django: potential denial-of-service vulnerability in IPv6 validation (CVE-2024-56374)
• python3.11-django: Potential denial-of-service in django.utils.html.strip_tags() (CVE-2024-53907)
• python3.11-jinja2: Jinja has a sandbox breakout through indirect reference to format method (CVE-2024-56326)
• python3.11-jinja2: Jinja has a sandbox breakout through malicious filenames (CVE-2024-56201)

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 included:

Automation controller

• Fixed an issue where the order of source inventories was not respected by the ansible.controller collection (AAP-38524)
• Fixed an issue where an actively running job on an execution node may have had its folder deleted by a system task (AAP-38137)
• automation-controller has been updated to 4.6.7

Event-Driven Ansible:

• Fixed an issue where users were unable to filter Rule Audits by rulebook activation name (AAP-39253)
• Users are now able to create a new Event-Driven Ansible credential by copying an existing one (AAP-39249)
• Added support for file and env injectors for Credentials (AAP-39091)
• Fixed an issue where the input field of the injector configuration could not be empty (AAP-39086)
• Fixed an issue where the application version in the openapi spec was incorrectly set (AAP-38392)
• Fixed an issue where activations were not properly updated in some scenarios with a high load of the system (AAP-38374)
• automation-eda-controller has been updated to 1.1.4

Container-based Ansible Automation Platform

• Allow user to not provide the Postgresql admin account with external database (AAP-39077)
• Using PostgreSQL TLS certificate authentication with an external database is now available (AAP-38400)
• containerized installer setup has been updated to 2.5-9

RPM-based Ansible Automation Platform

• Fixed an issue where gateway could not be setup with custom SSL certificates (AAP-38985)
• Fixed an issue where the gateway services are not restarted when a dependency changes (AAP-38918)
• Fixed an issue where setting automationedacontroller_max_running_activations could cause the installer to fail (AAP-38708)
• ansible-automation-platform-installer and installer setup have been updated to 2.5-8

Additional changes:

• python3.11-django has been updated to 4.2.18
• python3.11-jinja2 has been updated to 3.1.5
• python3.11-pulpcore has been updated to 3.49.30

Solution

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Affected Products

• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9 s390x
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9 aarch64
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8 s390x
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8 aarch64
• Red Hat Ansible Inside 1.3 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Inside 1.3 for RHEL 9 s390x
• Red Hat Ansible Inside 1.3 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Ansible Inside 1.3 for RHEL 9 aarch64
• Red Hat Ansible Inside 1.3 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Inside 1.3 for RHEL 8 s390x
• Red Hat Ansible Inside 1.3 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Ansible Inside 1.3 for RHEL 8 aarch64
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.2 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.2 for RHEL 9 s390x
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.2 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.2 for RHEL 9 aarch64
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.2 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.2 for RHEL 8 s390x
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.2 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.2 for RHEL 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2329288 - CVE-2024-53907 django: Potential denial-of-service in django.utils.html.strip_tags()
• BZ - 2333854 - CVE-2024-56201 jinja2: Jinja has a sandbox breakout through malicious filenames
• BZ - 2333856 - CVE-2024-56326 jinja2: Jinja has a sandbox breakout through indirect reference to format method
• BZ - 2337996 - CVE-2024-56374 django: potential denial-of-service vulnerability in IPv6 validation

CVEs

• CVE-2024-53907
• CVE-2024-56201
• CVE-2024-56326
• CVE-2024-56374

References

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