A path traversal vulnerability exists in Ansible when extracting tarballs. An attacker could craft a malicious tarball so that when using the galaxy importer of Ansible Automation Hub, a symlink could be dropped on the disk, resulting in files being overwritten.

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

  - A path traversal vulnerability exists in Ansible when extracting tarballs. An attacker could craft a     malicious tarball so that when using the galaxy importer of Ansible Automation Hub, a symlink could be     dropped on the disk, resulting in files being overwritten. (CVE-2023-5189)

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

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:2010 advisory.

    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.

    Security fixes:
    * python-pygments: ReDoS in pygments (CVE-2022-40896)
    * python-pycryptodomex: Side-channel leakage for OAEP decryption in PyCryptodome and pycryptodomex     (CVE-2023-52323)
    * satellite: Arithmetic overflow in satellite (CVE-2023-4320)
    * automation-hub: Ansible Automation Hub: insecure galaxy-importer tarfile extraction (CVE-2023-5189)
    * jetty: Improper addition of quotation marks to user inputs in CgiServlet (CVE-2023-36479)
    * python-aiohttp: HTTP request smuggling via llhttp HTTP request parser (CVE-2023-37276)
    * rubygem-activesupport: File Disclosure of Locally Encrypted Files (CVE-2023-38037)
    * jetty: Improper validation of HTTP/1 content-length (CVE-2023-40167)
    * python-django: Potential denial of service vulnerability in `django.utils.encoding.uri_to_iri()`     (CVE-2023-41164)
    * python-django: Denial-of-service possibility in django.utils.text.Truncator (CVE-2023-43665)
    * python-aiohttp: Numerous issues in HTTP parser with header parsing (CVE-2023-47627)
    * python-aiohttp: HTTP request modification (CVE-2023-49081)
    * python-aiohttp: CRLF injection if user controls the HTTP method using aiohttp client (CVE-2023-49082)
    * rubygem-puma: HTTP request smuggling when parsing chunked Transfer-Encoding Bodies (CVE-2024-21647)
    * rubygem-audited: Race condition can lead to audit logs being incorrectly attributed to the wrong user     (CVE-2024-22047)
    * python-jinja2: HTML attribute injection when passing user input as keys to xmlattr filter     (CVE-2024-22195)
    * python-aiohttp: Follow_symlinks directory traversal vulnerability (CVE-2024-23334)
    * python-aiohttp: HTTP request smuggling (CVE-2024-23829)

    Additional Changes:
    This update also fixes several bugs and adds various enhancements.

    Documentation for these changes is available from the Release Notes document linked to in the References     section.

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.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 / 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:7773 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):

    * ansible-core: Template Injection (CVE-2023-5764)

    * python3-galaxy-importer/python39-galaxy-importer: insecure galaxy-importer tarfile extraction     (CVE-2023-5189)

    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 2.15.8
    * python3-galaxy-importer/python39-galaxy-importer has been updated to 0.4.18

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.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:1536 advisory.

    Red Hat Satellite is a system management solution that allows organizations     to configure and maintain their systems without the necessity to provide     public Internet access to their servers or other client systems. It     performs provisioning and configuration management of predefined standard     operating environments.
    Security Fix(es):

    * automation-hub: Ansible Automation Hub: insecure galaxy-importer tarfile extraction (CVE-2023-5189)
    * python-aiohttp: aiohttp: follow_symlinks directory traversal vulnerability (CVE-2024-23334)
    * python-aiohttp: http request smuggling (CVE-2024-23829)
    * python-aiohttp: numerous issues in HTTP parser with header parsing (CVE-2023-47627)
    * python-aiohttp: aiohttp: HTTP request modification (CVE-2023-49081)
    * python-django: Denial-of-service possibility in django.utils.text.Truncator (CVE-2023-43665)
    * python-jinja2: jinja2: HTML attribute injection when passing user input as keys to xmlattr filter     (CVE-2024-22195)

    Bug Fix(es):
    2266107 - hammer host list does not print parameters even if they are present in the fields list like LCE     and CVs.
    2266110 - Incremental update of *multiple* CVs with same repo of different content generates wrong katello     content     2266139 - Failed incremental CV import shows error: duplicate key value violates unique constraint     rpm_updatecollectionname_name_update_record_id_6ef33bed_uniq     2266140 - wrong links to provisioning guide in CR help     2266142 - When using the customer data (json) with 13 diff conf files, we can see some weird behavior when     updating the hypervisors     2266144 - Promoting a composite content view to environment with registry name as <%=     lifecycle_environment.label %>/<%= repository.name %> on Red Hat Satellite 6 fails with 'undefined     method '#label' for NilClass::Jail (NilClass)'     2266145 - CertificateCleanupJob fails with foreign key constraint violation on table cp_certificate     2266146 - katello:reimport fails with TypeError: no implicit conversion of String into Integer when     there are product contents to move     2266147 - Postgresql logs contain PG::UniqueViolation: ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique     constraint katello_available_module_streams_name_stream_context     2266148 - Adding a CV to a CCV lists CV versions disorderly     2266149 - 'Remove orphans' task fails on DeleteOrphanAlternateContentSources step     2266413 - [RFE] Add content view window and Update version window should display content view version,     description and publishing date     2266113 - [RFE] To make customers aware about satellite versions going EOL by adding warning banner on the     Login page or on the Dashboard page.
    2266141 - wrong link to scap content documentation     Users of Red Hat Satellite are advised to upgrade to these updated     packages, which fix these bugs.

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
260946	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2023-5189	Nessus	Misc.	medium
199805	RHEL 8 : Satellite 6.15.0 (Important) (RHSA-2024:2010)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
194442	RHEL 8 / 9 : Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 Product Security and Bug Fix Update (Moderate) (RHSA-2023:7773)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
194355	RHEL 8 : Satellite 6.14.3 Async Security Update (Moderate) (RHSA-2024:1536)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high

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