SB2025012864 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 packages



SB2025012864 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 packages

Published: January 28, 2025 Updated: January 29, 2025

Security Bulletin ID SB2025012864
CSH Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 4
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Code execution

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 4 vulnerabilities.


1) Security features bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-56326)

CWE-ID: CWE-254 - Security Features

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear


The vulnerability allows a local user to bypass sandbox restrictions.

The vulnerability exists in the way the Jinja sandboxed environment detects calls to str.format.  A local user with the ability to control the contents of a template can bypass sandbox restrictions.

2) Security features bypass (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-56201)

CWE-ID: CWE-254 - Security Features

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear


The vulnerability allows a local user to bypass sandbox restrictions.

The vulnerability exists due to improper validation of user-supplied input.  A local user with the ability to control both the filename and the contents of a template can bypass sandbox restrictions.


3) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-56374)

CWE-ID: CWE-20 - Improper input validation

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green


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

The vulnerability exists due lack of upper-bound limit enforcement in strings passed when performing IPv6 validation in clean_ipv6_address() and is_valid_ipv6_address() functions. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


4) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-53907)

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green


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.html.strip_tags() function. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.