SB2023101613 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.3



SB2023101613 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.3

Published: October 16, 2023

Security Bulletin ID SB2023101613
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 2
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.


1) UNIX symbolic link following (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-5115)

The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to a symlink following issue. A local user can create a specially crafted symbolic link to files outside the application directory and overwrite them.


2) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-41164)

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources within the django.utils.encoding.uri_to_iri() method. A remote attacker can pass a large number of characters to the affected method and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.