RedHat: RHSA-2021-0780:01 Important: Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.8.2-1 -
Summary
Security Fix(es):
* Addressed a security issue which can allow a malicious playbook author to
elevate to the awx user from outside the isolated environment:
CVE-2021-20253
* Upgraded to a more recent version of Django to address CVE-2021-3281.
* Upgraded to a more recent version of autobahn to address CVE-2020-35678.
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.
Bug Fix(es):
* Upgraded to the latest oVirt inventory plugin to resolve a number of
inventory syncing issues that can occur on RHEL7.
* Upgraded to the latest theforeman.foreman inventory plugin to resolve a
few bugs and performance regressions.
* Fixed several issues related to how Tower rotates its log files.
* Fixed a bug which can prevent Tower from installing on RHEL8 with certain
non-en_US.UTF-8 locales.
* Fixed a bug which can cause unanticipated delays in certain playbook
output.
* Fixed a bug which can cause job runs to fail for playbooks that print
certain types of raw binary data.
* Fixed a bug which can cause unnecessary records in the Activity Stream
when Automation Analytics data is collected.
* Fixed a bug which can cause Tower PostgreSQL backups to fail when a
non-default PostgreSQL username is specified.
* Fixed a bug which can intermittently cause access to encrypted Tower
settings to fail, resulting in failed job launches.
* Fixed a bug which can cause certain long-running jobs running on isolated
nodes to unexpectedly fail.
Summary
Solution
For information on upgrading Ansible Tower, reference the Ansible Tower
Upgrade and Migration Guide:
https://docs.ansible.com/ansible-tower/latest/html/upgrade-migration-guide/
index.html
References
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-10543 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-10878 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-12723 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-35678 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3281 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20178 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20180 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20191 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20228 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20253 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
Package List
Topic
Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.8.2-1 - ContainerRed Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Topic
Relevant Releases Architectures
Bugs Fixed
1911314 - CVE-2020-35678 python-autobahn: allows redirect header injection
1919969 - CVE-2021-3281 django: Potential directory-traversal via archive.extract()
1928847 - CVE-2021-20253 ansible-tower: Privilege escalation via job isolation escape