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RHEL 9 : Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 Product Security and Bug Fix Update (Important) (RHSA-2026:34160)
high Nessus Plugin ID 324569
Synopsis
The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.Description
The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:34160 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-platform-ui: Axios: Denial of Service due to unenforced request and response size limits (CVE-2026-44488)
* automation-platform-ui: Axios: Information disclosure due to prototype pollution vulnerability (CVE-2026-44495)
* automation-platform-ui: fast-uri: URI authority bypass due to improper delimiter handling (CVE-2026-6322)
* automation-platform-ui: Axios: Arbitrary HTTP header injection via prototype pollution (CVE-2026-42035)
* automation-platform-ui: DOMPurify: Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) via inconsistent tag sanitization (CVE-2026-41240)
* automation-platform-ui: protobufjs: Arbitrary code execution due to unsafe expression generation from crafted protobuf descriptors (CVE-2026-44293)
* python3.12-pyjwt: Authentication bypass due to forged JSON Web Tokens (CVE-2026-48526)
* automation-controller: Dynaconf: Arbitrary code execution via Server-Side Template Injection (CVE-2026-33154)
* python3.12-urllib3: Information disclosure via cross-origin redirects forwarding sensitive headers (CVE-2026-44431)
* python3.12-urllib3: Denial of Service due to excessive HTTP response decompression (CVE-2026-44432)
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.
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.
Solution
Update the affected packages.See Also
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:34160
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2449774
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2461147
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2461606
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2466684
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2477104
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2477154
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2477167
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2482734
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2487937
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2487949
http://www.nessus.org/u?2242e607
Plugin Details
Severity: High
ID: 324569
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2026-34160.nasl
Version: 1.1
Type: Local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
Published: 7/1/2026
Updated: 7/1/2026
Supported Sensors: Continuous Assessment, Nessus Agent, Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: High
Score: 7.6
Percentile: 98.47
Vendor
Vendor Severity: Important
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 9
Temporal Score: 7
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-44293
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 8.8
Temporal Score: 7.9
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/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 v4
Risk Factor: High
Base Score: 8.9
Threat Score: 7.7
Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:P
Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-44432
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:automation-controller-cli, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:automation-controller-ui, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3.12-pyjwt%2bcrypto, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3.12-urllib3, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:automation-controller, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3.12-pyjwt, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:automation-controller-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:automation-controller-venv-tower, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:automation-platform-ui
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: 7/1/2026
Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/18/2026
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2026-33154, CVE-2026-41240, CVE-2026-42035, CVE-2026-44293, CVE-2026-44431, CVE-2026-44432, CVE-2026-44488, CVE-2026-44495, CVE-2026-48526, CVE-2026-6322