Important: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.1 ansible-runner security update

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2021-4112  

Synopsis

Important: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.1 ansible-runner security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Important

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Topic

An update is now available for ansible-runner for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.1

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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):

  • Ansible: ansible-runner: Privilege escalation via job isolation escape (CVE-2021-4112)

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.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.1 x86_64

Fixes

  • BZ - 2028121 - CVE-2021-4112 ansible-tower: Privilege escalation via job isolation escape