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Red Hat: RHSA-2022-0474 Important: Ansible Automation Platform Update

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Calendar Grey February 8, 2022
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A critical patch resolves a privilege escalation vulnerability in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.0.
An update is now available for ansible-runner for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.0 Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

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: ansible-runner: Privilege escalation via job isolation escape (CVE-2021-4112)
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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat privilege escalation important automation ansible-runner

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-4112 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.0 for RHEL 8:
Source: ansible-runner-2.0.3-3.el8ap.src.rpm
noarch: ansible-runner-2.0.3-3.el8ap.noarch.rpm python38-ansible-runner-2.0.3-3.el8ap.noarch.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/


Severity
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:0474-01
Product: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:0474
Issue date: 2022-02-08

Topic

An update is now available for ansible-runner for Red Hat AnsibleAutomation Platform 2.0Red 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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat privilege escalation important automation ansible-runner

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.0 for RHEL 8 - noarch

Bugs Fixed

2028121 - CVE-2021-4112 ansible-tower: Privilege escalation via job isolation escape

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