A logic flaw exists in Ansible Automation platform. Whenever a private project is created with incorrect credentials, they are logged in plaintext. This flaw allows an attacker to retrieve the credentials from the log, resulting in the loss of confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - A logic flaw exists in Ansible Automation platform. Whenever a private project is created with incorrect     credentials, they are logged in plaintext. This flaw allows an attacker to retrieve the credentials from     the log, resulting in the loss of confidentiality, integrity, and availability. (CVE-2023-4380)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 / 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:4693 advisory.

    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-eda-controller: token exposed at importing project (CVE-2023-4380)
    * python3-cryptography/python39-cryptography: memory corruption via immutable objects (CVE-2023-23931)
    * python3-django/python39-django: Potential regular expression denial of service vulnerability in     EmailValidator/URLValidator (CVE-2023-36053)
    * python3-requests/python39-requests: Unintended leak of Proxy-Authorization header (CVE-2023-32681)

    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 for Event-Driven Ansible:
    * automation-eda-controller has been updated to 1.0.1
    * Contributor and editor roles now have permissions to access users and set the AWX token. (AAP-11573)
    * The onboarding wizard now requests controller token creation. (AAP-11907)
    * Corrected the filtering capability of the Rule Audit screens so that a search yields results with the     starts with function. (AAP-11987)
    * Enabling or disabling rulebook activation no longer increases the restarts counter by 1. (AAP-12042)
    * Filtering by a text string now displays all applicable items in the UI, including those that are not     visible in the list at that time. (AAP-12446)
    * Audit records are no longer missing when running activations with multiple jobs. (AAP-12522)
    * The event payload is no longer missing key attributes when a job template fails. (AAP-12529)
    * Fixed the Git token leak that occurs when importing a project fails. (AAP-12767)
    * The restart policy in Kubernetes (k8s) now restarts successful activation that is incorrectly marked as     failed. (AAP-12862)
    * Activation statuses are now reported correctly, whether you are disabling or enabling them. (AAP-12896)
    * When run_job_template action fails now, ansible-rulebook prints an error log in the activation output     and creates an entry in rule audit so that the user is alerted that the rule has failed. (AAP-12909)
    * When a user tries to bulk delete rulebook activations from the list, the request now completes     successfully and consistently. (AAP-13093)
    * The Rulebook Activation link now functions correctly in the Rule Audit Detail UI. (AAP-13182)
    * Fixed a bug where ansible-rulebook prevented the execution, if the connection with the controller was     not successful when controller was not required by the rulebook. (AAP-13209)
    * Fixed a bug where some audit rule records had the wrong rulebook link. (AAP-13844)
    * Fixed a bug where only the first 10 audit rules had the right link. (AAP-13845)
    * Previously project credentials could not be updated if there was a change to the credential used in the     project. Now credentials can be updated in a project with a new or different credential. (AAP-13983)
    * The User Access section of the navigation panel no longer disappears after creating a decision     environment. (AAP-14273)
    * Fixed a bug where filtering for audit rules didn't work properly on OpenShift Container Platform.
    (AAP-14512)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
260925	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-4380	Nessus	Misc.	medium
194297	RHEL 8 / 9 : Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 Product Security and Bug Fix Update (Moderate) (RHSA-2023:4693)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	critical

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