RHSA-2024:3781: 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.<br>Security Fix(es):<br><li> automation-controller: aio<a href="http:" target="blank">http:</a> DoS when trying to parse malformed POST requests (CVE-2024-30251)</li> <li> automation-controller: Django: Potential regular expression denial-of-service in django.utils.text.Truncator.words() (CVE-2024-27351)</li> <li> automation-controller: pip: Mercurial configuration injectable in repo revision when installing via pip (CVE-2023-5752)</li> <li> automation-controller: pydantic: regular expression denial of service via crafted email string (CVE-2024-3772)</li> <li> automation-hub, python3/python39-galaxy-ng: follow-redirects: Possible credential leak (CVE-2024-28849)</li> <li> python3/python39-aio<a href="http:" target="blank">http:</a> DoS when trying to parse malformed POST requests (CVE-2024-30251)</li> <li> python3/python39-aio<a href="http:" target="blank">http:</a> XSS on index pages for static file handling (CVE-2024-27306)</li> <li> python3/python39-black: ReDoS via the lineswithleadingtabsexpanded() function in strings.py file (CVE-2024-21503)</li> <li> python3/python39-cryptography: NULL pointer dereference with pkcs12.serializekeyandcertificates when called with a non-matching certificate and private key and an hmachash override (CVE-2024-26130)</li> <li> python3/python39-cryptography: NULL-dereference when loading PKCS7 certificates (CVE-2023-49083)</li> <li> python3/python39-cryptography: NULL-dereference when loading PKCS7 certificates (CVE-2023-49083)</li> <li> python3/python39-gunicorn: HTTP Request Smuggling due to improper validation of Transfer-Encoding headers (CVE-2024-1135)</li> <li> python3/python39-idna: potential DoS via resource consumption via specially crafted inputs to idna.encode() (CVE-2024-3651)</li> <li> python3/python39-jinja2: accepts keys containing non-attribute characters (CVE-2024-34064)</li> <li> python3/python39-pillow: buffer overflow in imagingcms.c (CVE-2024-28219)</li> <li> python3/python39-pillow: Arbitrary Code Execution via the environment parameter (CVE-2023-50447)</li> <li> python3/python39-pydantic: regular expression denial of service via crafted email string (CVE-2024-3772)</li> <li> python3/python39-requests: subsequent requests to the same host ignore cert verification (CVE-2024-35195)</li> <li> python3/python39-social-auth-app-django: Improper Handling of Case Sensitivity in social-auth-app-django (CVE-2024-32879)</li> <li> python3/python39-sqlparse: parsing heavily nested list leads to denial of service (CVE-2024-4340)</li> <li> receptor: golang: crypto/x509: Verify panics on certificates with an unknown public key algorithm (CVE-2024-24783)</li> <li> receptor: golang: net/http, x/net/http2: unlimited number of CONTINUATION frames causes DoS (CVE-2023-45288)</li> <li> receptor: golang: net/<a href="http:" target="blank">http:</a> memory exhaustion in Request.ParseMultipartForm (CVE-2023-45290)</li> 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.<br>Updates and fixes for automation controller:<br><li> Fixed Redis connection leak on version 4.5.6 (AAP-24286)</li> <li> automation-controller has been updated to 4.5.7</li> Updates and fixes for automation hub:<br><li> Fixed repository sync issues (AAH-3111, AAH-3218)</li> <li> automation-hub/python3-galaxy-ng/python39-galaxy-ng have been updated to 4.9.2</li> Additional changes:<br><li> ansible-core has been updated to 2.15.11</li> <li> automation-eda-controller has been updated to 1.0.7</li> <li> installer and setup have been updated to 2.4-7</li> <li> receptor has been updated to 1.4.8</li> For more details about the updates and fixes included in this release, refer to the Release Notes.

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