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Red Hat: RHSA-2022-6079-01 Important: Ansible Privilege Escalation

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Calendar Grey August 16, 2022
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Significant safety enhancement for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform resolves severe privilege escalation flaws.
An update is now available for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.2 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):
* automation hub: Ansible: Logic flaw leads to privilege escalation (CVE-2022-2568)
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 Red Hat update privilege escalation important Ansible automation platform

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-2568 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Package List

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.2 for RHEL 8:
Source: python3x-galaxy-ng-4.5.0-4.el8ap.src.rpm
noarch: python39-galaxy-ng-4.5.0-4.el8ap.noarch.rpm
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.2 for RHEL 9:
Source: python-galaxy-ng-4.5.0-4.el9ap.src.rpm
noarch: python3-galaxy-ng-4.5.0-4.el9ap.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/


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:6079-01
Product: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:6079
Issue date: 2022-08-16

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.2Red 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 update privilege escalation important Ansible automation platform

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.2 for RHEL 8 - noarch

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.2 for RHEL 9 - noarch

Bugs Fixed

2108653 - CVE-2022-2568 Ansible: Logic flaw leads to privilage escalation

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