Red Hat Security Advisory 2024-8969-03

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Moderate: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Execution Environments Container Release Update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2024:8969-03
Product: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8969
Issue date: 2024-11-12
Revision: 03
CVE Names: CVE-2024-8775
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Summary:

An update is now available for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Execution Environments

Description:

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):
* ansible-core: Exposure of Sensitive Information in Ansible Vault Files Due to Improper Logging (CVE-2024-8775)
* ansible-core: Ansible-core user may read/write unauthorized content (CVE-2024-9902)

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:
* ansible-core has been updated to 2.16.13 (ee-minimal 2.16 stream)
* ansible-core has been updated to 2.17.6 (ee-minimal 2.17 stream)
* ansible-core 2.18.0 has been added (ee-minimal 2.18 stream)

Solution:

CVEs:

CVE-2024-8775

References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2312119
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2318271