RHSA-2024:1640: Moderate: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 Product Security and Bug Fix Update

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): automation-controller: Django: denial-of-service in 'intcomma' template filter (CVE-2024-24680) automation-controller: aiohttp: http request smuggling (CVE-2024-23829) automation-controller: aiohttp: followsymlinks directory traversal vulnerability (CVE-2024-23334) automation-controller: Jinja2: HTML attribute injection when passing user input as keys to xmlattr filter (CVE-2024-22195) automation-controller: cryptography: NULL-dereference when loading PKCS7 certificates (CVE-2023-49083) automation-controller: aiohttp: numerous issues in HTTP parser with header parsing (CVE-2023-47627) automation-controller: Twisted: disordered HTTP pipeline response in twisted.web (CVE-2023-46137) automation-controller: axios: exposure of confidential data stored in cookies (CVE-2023-45857) automation-controller: GitPython: Blind local file inclusion (CVE-2023-41040) python3-aiohttp/python39-aiohttp: http request smuggling (CVE-2024-23829) python3-aiohttp/python39-aiohttp: followsymlinks directory traversal vulnerability (CVE-2024-23334) python3-django/python39-django: Potential regular expression denial-of-service in django.utils.text.Truncator.words() (CVE-2024-27351) receptor: golang-fips/openssl: Memory leaks in code encrypting and decrypting RSA payloads (CVE-2024-1394) receptor: golang: net/http/internal: Denial of Service (DoS) via Resource Consumption via HTTP requests (CVE-2023-39326) 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.Updates and fixes for automation controller: Fixed bug where schedule prompted variables and survey answers were reset on edit when changing one of the basic form fields (AAP-20967) Fixed the update execution environment image to no longer fail jobs that use the previous image (AAP-21733) Removed string validation using comparisons of English literals for comparison, replacing validation with error/op codes as a universal approach to validation and comparison (AAP-21721) Fixed dispatcher to appropriately terminate child processes when dispatcher terminates (AAP-21049) Fixed upgrade from Ansible Tower 3.8.6 to AAP 2.4 to no longer fail upon database schema migration (AAP-19738) automation-controller has been updated to 4.5.5 Updates and fixes for receptor: Fixes a receptor dialing issue where the connection attempt is timed out too aggressively (AAP-21838, AAP-21828) receptor has been updated to 1.4.5 Additional fixes: ansible-core has been updated to 2.15.10 ansible-runner has been updated to 2.3.6 python3-aiohttp/python39-aiohttp has been updated to 3.9.3 python3-django/python39-django has been updated 4.2.11 python3-pulpcore/python39-pulpcore has been updated 3.28.24

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