Versions of the package djangorestframework before 3.15.2 are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) via the break_long_headers template filter due to improper input sanitization before splitting and joining with <br> tags.

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

  - Versions of the package djangorestframework before 3.15.2 are vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting (XSS) via     the break_long_headers template filter due to improper input sanitization before splitting and joining     with <br> tags. (CVE-2024-21520)

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

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 / 9 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2024:7312 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-controller: djangorestframework: Cross-site Scripting (XSS) via break_long_headers     (CVE-2024-21520)
    * automation-controller: twisted: Reflected XSS via HTML Injection in Redirect Response (CVE-2024-41810)
    * automation-controller: urllib3: proxy-authorization request header is not stripped during cross-origin     redirects (CVE-2024-37891)

    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 Galaxy credentials to be correctly ordered when assigning them using     'ansible.controller.organization' (AAP-31398)
    * Fixed gather analytics failure due to missing '_unpartitioned_main_jobevent' table (AAP-31053)
    * automation-controller has been updated to 4.5.12

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
227869	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2024-21520	Nessus	Misc.	medium
207856	RHEL 8 / 9 : Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 Product Security and Bug Fix Update (Moderate) (RHSA-2024:7312)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium

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