Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9 update for python39-django

1) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU80395

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 6.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2023-41164

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

Exploit availability: No

Description

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

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources within the django.utils.encoding.uri_to_iri() method. A remote attacker can pass a large number of characters to the affected method and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

Ansible Automation Platform: 2.4

python3x-django (Red Hat package): before 3.2.21-1.el8ap

python-django (Red Hat package): before 3.2.21-1.el9ap

automation-controller (Red Hat package): before 4.4.4-1.el9ap

ansible-runner (Red Hat package): before 2.3.4-1.el9ap

ansible-core (Red Hat package): before 2.15.4-1.el9ap

External links

http://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5208

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.