RHEL 8 / 9 : Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 Product Security and Bug Fix Update (Moderate) (RHSA-2023:4340)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 179316

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 / 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2023:4340 advisory.

- Controller: Html injection in custom login info (CVE-2023-3971)

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

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?6d6a9571

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2226965

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4340

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 179316

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-4340.nasl

Version: 1.4

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/3/2023

Updated: 4/28/2024

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.1

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-3971

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:automation-controller, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:automation-controller-cli, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:automation-controller-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:automation-controller-ui, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:automation-controller-venv-tower, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 7/27/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/23/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-3971

CWE: 80

IAVA: 2023-A-0390

RHSA: 2023:4340