Important: Red Hat Ansible Ansible Tower 3.8 security update

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.8.

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 Tower 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 Tower 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-tower: 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

This update applies a vulnerability fix to the ansible-tower and ansible-runner rpms. Apply this fix by running the platform installer (setup.sh).

Affected Products

• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Text-Only Advisories x86_64

Fixes

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

CVEs

• CVE-2021-4112

References

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