(RHSA-2023:5758) Moderate: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 Product Security and Bug Fix Update

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-core: malicious role archive can cause ansible-galaxy to overwrite arbitrary files (CVE-2023-5115)
• automation-controller: Django: Potential denial of service vulnerability in django.utils.encoding.uri_to_iri() (CVE-2023-41164)
• python3-django/python39-django: Denial-of-service possibility in django.utils.text.Truncator (CVE-2023-43665)

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.

Additional changes:

• ansible-core has been updated to 2.15.5
• automation-controller has been updated to 4.4.6
• python3-django/python39-django has been updated to 3.2.22
• automation controller: Added a new subscription usage page to the controller UI to view historical usage of licenses (AAP-16983)