(RHSA-2024:6765) 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):

• python3-pulpcore/python39-pulpcore: RBAC permissions incorrectly assigned in tasks that create objects (CVE-2024-7143)
• python3-urllib3/python39-urllib3: urllib3: proxy-authorization request header is not stripped during cross-origin redirects (CVE-2024-37891)
• receptor: golang: net/netip: Unexpected behavior from Is methods for IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses (CVE-2024-24790)
• receptor: golang: net: malformed DNS message can cause infinite loop (CVE-2024-24788)

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:

• Updated fallback to use RHSM subscription credential for shipping analytics data if analytics gathering is enabled (AAP-30228)
• Upgraded ‘channels-redis’ library to fix Redis connection leak (AAP-30124)
• automation-controller has been updated to 4.5.11

Additional fixes:

• python3/python39-django has been updated to 4.2.16
• python3/python39-pulpcore has been updated to 3.28.32
• python3/python39-urllib3 has been updated to 1.26.20
• receptor has been updated to 1.4.8-1.1