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RedHat RHSA-2022:0482-01 Important Update for Ansible Tower 3.8

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Calendar Grey February 9, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.8 has been updated to fix a critical vulnerability related to privilege escalation.
An update is now available for Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.8

Solution

This update applies a vulnerability fix to the ansible-tower and ansible-runner rpms. Apply this fix by running the platform installer (setup.sh).

Summary

Red Hat Ansible Tower 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 Tower 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-tower: 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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory update red hat privilege escalation important ansible tower

References

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

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:0482-01
Product: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:0482
Issue date: 2022-02-08

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.8.Red 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 update red hat privilege escalation important ansible tower

Relevant Releases Architectures

Bugs Fixed

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

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