RHEL 8 / 9 : Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 Product Security and Bug Fix Update (Moderate) (RHSA-2023:7773)

high Nessus Plugin ID 194442

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-2023:7773 advisory.

- Ansible Automation Hub: insecure galaxy-importer tarfile extraction (CVE-2023-5189)

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

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, python3-galaxy-importer and / or python39-galaxy-importer packages.

See Also

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2234387

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2247629

http://www.nessus.org/u?5c22991b

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7773

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 194442

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2023-7773.nasl

Version: 1.0

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/29/2024

Updated: 4/29/2024

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 6.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-5189

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 7

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-5764

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3-galaxy-importer, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3x-galaxy-importer, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python39-galaxy-importer, 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:python-galaxy-importer

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

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/13/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/14/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-5189, CVE-2023-5764

CWE: 1336

IAVA: 2024-A-0126

RHSA: 2023:7773