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Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.8.2-1 RHSA-2021:0780-01 Important Security Update

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Calendar Grey March 9, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.8.3-2 has been released with critical security patches addressing several vulnerabilities and performance issues. Update is advised.
Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.8.2-1 - Container Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important

Solution

For information on upgrading Ansible Tower, reference the Ansible Tower Upgrade and Migration Guide: https://legacy-controller-docs.ansible.com/ansible-tower/ index.html

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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat bug fix security fix security impact important update container security container elevation of privilege Ansible Tower

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

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:0780-01
Product: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:0780
Issue date: 2021-03-09

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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat bug fix security fix security impact important update container security container elevation of privilege Ansible Tower

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

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