SB2023082206 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9 



SB2023082206 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9

Published: August 22, 2023 Updated: June 28, 2024

Security Bulletin ID SB2023082206
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 4
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 4 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) Error Handling (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-23931)

The vulnerability allows an attacker to misuse Python API.

The vulnerability exists due to a soundness bug within the Cipher.update_into function, which can allow immutable objects (such as bytes) to be mutated. A malicious programmer can misuse Python API to introduce unexpected behavior into the application.


2) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-32681)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to requests has been leaking Proxy-Authorization headers to destination servers when redirected to an HTTPS endpoint. A remote attacker can gain unauthorized access to sensitive information on the system.


3) Inefficient regular expression complexity (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-36053)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient input validation when processing untrusted input with a regular expressions within EmailValidator and URLValidator. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.


4) Information disclosure (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-4380)

The vulnerability allows a local user to gain access to potentially sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists in automation-eda-controller, which exposes token during project import. A local user can gain access to sensitive information.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.