RHEL 8 / 9 : Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 Product Security and Bug Fix Update (Moderate) (RHSA-2023:4692)

high Nessus Plugin ID 194322

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 / 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:4692 advisory.

- python-django: Potential denial-of-service vulnerability in file uploads (CVE-2023-24580)

- python-django: Potential regular expression denial of service vulnerability in EmailValidator/URLValidator (CVE-2023-36053)

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

Solution

Update the affected automation-controller and / or automation-controller-venv-tower packages.

See Also

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2169402

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2218004

http://www.nessus.org/u?1dcb6be1

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:4692

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 194322

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-4692.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/28/2024

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: Medium

Score: 4.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-36053

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

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

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: 8/21/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/14/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-24580, CVE-2023-36053

CWE: 1333, 400

RHSA: 2023:4692