Moderate: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.3 Product Security and Bug Fix Update

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.3

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

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

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.

Additional changes for automation controller:

• automation-controller has been updated to 4.3.11 (AAP-14634)
• receptor has been updated to 1.4.1 (AAP-14641)
• Fixed server error that happens when deleting workflow jobs ran before event partitioning migration (AAP-7965)
• Fixed bug where users could get an erroneous 400 error when disabling or enabling a schedule (AAP-10943)
• Fixed bug causing screen to crash when changing credential type dropdown in launch prompt modal (AAP-11443)
• Fixed an issue with slow database 'UPDATE' statements when using nested tasks(include_tasks) causing task manager timeout (AAP-12585)
• Fixed bug where adding new labels to a job through prompting didn't work (AAP-14205)
• Re-enabled Pendo support by providing the correct pendo api key (AAP-14214)
• Added noopener and noreferrer to Controller UI links that were missing it (AAP-14346)
• Updated links to docs from subscriptions page to reflect only major version being used (AAP-14376)
• Turned off autocomplete on remaining Controller ui forms that were missing that attribute (AAP-14443)
• Fixed bug where forms provided in the custom login info would render and execute. (AAP-14627)

Other changes:

• Initial release of aap-metrics-utility (AAP-14116)

Solution

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Affected Products

• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.3 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.3 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Inside 1.1 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Inside 1.1 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.0 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.0 for RHEL 8 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 2226965 - CVE-2023-3971 Controller: Html injection in custom login info

CVEs

• CVE-2023-3971

References

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