RHEL 8 / 9 : Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 Product Security and Bug Fix Update (Moderate) (RHSA-2024:0733)

high Nessus Plugin ID 194414

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-2024:0733 advisory.

- python-urllib3: Cookie request header isn't stripped during cross-origin redirects (CVE-2023-43804)

- ansible-core: possible information leak in tasks that ignore ANSIBLE_NO_LOG configuration (CVE-2024-0690)

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 ansible-core and / or automation-controller-venv-tower packages.

See Also

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

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0322

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2023:7863

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2242493

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2259013

http://www.nessus.org/u?25a727c1

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:0733

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 194414

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2024-0733.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: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 6.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-43804

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

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

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:ansible-core, 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: 2/7/2024

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/2/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-43804, CVE-2024-0690

CWE: 117, 200

IAVA: 2024-A-0126

RHSA: 2024:0733