SB2023102349 - Multiple vulnerabilities in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4
Published: October 23, 2023 Updated: March 7, 2025
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 54 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-48303)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error within the from_header() function in list.c when handling V7 archives. A remote attacker can trick the victim to open a specially crafted V7 archive, trigger a heap-based buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
2) Out-of-bounds write (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-1897)
The vulnerability allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to Illegal memory access and leads to an out-of-bounds write vulnerability in the vim_regsub_both() function. A local attacker can trick the victim into opening a specially crafted file, leading to a system crash or code execution.
3) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-1927)
The vulnerability allows a local attacker to execute arbitrary code on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to Illegal memory access and leads to a buffer over-read vulnerability in the utf_ptr2char() function. A local attacker can trick the victim into opening a specially crafted file, trigger out-of-bounds read error and execute arbitrary code on the system.
4) Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-3172)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform SSRF attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input in kube-apiserver. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted HTTP request and trick the application to initiate requests to arbitrary systems.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker gain access to sensitive data, located in the local network or send malicious requests to other servers from the vulnerable system.
5) Information Exposure Through Timing Discrepancy (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-4304)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to a timing based side channel exists in the OpenSSL RSA Decryption implementation. A remote attacker can perform a Bleichenbacher style attack and decrypt data sent over the network.
To achieve a successful decryption an attacker would have to be able to send a very large number of trial messages for decryption. The vulnerability affects all RSA padding modes: PKCS#1 v1.5, RSA-OEAP and RSASVE.
6) Double Free (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-4450)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error within the PEM_read_bio_ex() function. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted PEM file to the application, trigger a double free error and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
7) SQL injection (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-24407)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary SQL queries in database.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of password in the SQL plugin shipped with Cyrus SASL. A remote non-authenticated attacker can send a specially crafted request to the affected application and execute arbitrary SQL commands within the application database.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to read, delete, modify data in database and gain complete control over the affected application.
8) Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-34903)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform spoofing attack.
The vulnerability exists due to an error in GnuPG, which allows signature spoofing via arbitrary injection into the status line. A remote attacker who controls the secret part of any signing-capable key or subkey in the victim's keyring, can take advantage of this flaw to provide a correctly-formed signature that some software, including gpgme, will accept to have validity and signer fingerprint chosen from the attacker.
9) Heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-37434)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing a large gzip header within inflateGetHeader in inflate.c. A remote attacker can pass a specially crafted file to the affected application, trigger heap-based buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
10) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-40674)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error in the doContent() function in xmlparse.c. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application that is using the affected library, trigger a use-after-free error and execute arbitrary code on the system.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
11) Integer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-42898)
The vulnerability allows a remote user to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to an integer overflow within the S4U2Proxy handler on 32-bit systems. A remote user can send specially crafted request to the KDC server, trigger an integer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
12) Integer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-47629)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to integer overflow in the CRL signature parser. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application, trigger an integer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
13) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-0215)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error within the BIO_new_NDEF function. A remote attacker can trigger a use-after-free error and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
14) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-1586)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition in the PCRE2 library in the compile_xclass_matchingpath() function of the pcre2_jit_compile.c file. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application, trigger out-of-bounds read error, gain access to sensitive information or perform a denial of service attack.
15) Inadequate Encryption Strength (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-0361)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform MitM attack.
The vulnerability exists due to an error in the TLS RSA key exchange. A remote attacker can perform Bleichenbacher oracle attack and decrypt information.
16) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-3341)
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 when handling control channel messages . A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
17) Incorrect authorization (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-3899)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to incorrect authorization caused by D-Bus interface com.redhat.RHSM1 that exposes a significant number of methods to all users. A local user can abuse the com.redhat.RHSM1.Config.SetAll() method to change the state of the registration and escalate privileges on the system.
18) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-4527)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information or perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition within the getaddrinfo() function called with the AF_UNSPEC address family. A remote attacker with control over DNS server can send a DNS response via TCP larger than 2048 bytes, trigger an out-of-bounds read and crash the application or gain access to potentially sensitive information.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability requires that system is configured with no-aaaa mode via /etc/resolv.conf.
19) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-4806)
The vulnerability allows an attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error within the getaddrinfo() function. A remote attacker can perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
20) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-4813)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error within the gaih_inet() function when the getaddrinfo() function is called and the hosts database in
/etc/nsswitch.conf is configured with SUCCESS=continue or SUCCESS=merge. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
21) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-4911)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
22) 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.
23) Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-34969)
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to an error in the dbus-daemon when sending a reply message from the "bus driver". If a local privileged user (e.g. root) is using the org.freedesktop.DBus.Monitoring interface to monitor message bus traffic, another unprivileged user with the ability to connect to the same dbus-daemon can force the service to send an unreplyable message and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
24) Cleartext transmission of sensitive information (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-40217)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to an error in ssl.SSLSocket implementation when handling TLS client authentication. A remote attacker can trick the application to send data unencrypted.
25) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-43665)
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 chars() and words() methods. A remote attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
26) Out-of-bounds write (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-1785)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when processing untrusted input in vim_regsub_both() function. A remote attacker can create a specially crafted file, trick the victim into opening it using the affected software, trigger out-of-bounds write and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
27) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-1271)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the affected system.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation when processing filenames with two or more newlines. A remote attacker can force zgrep or xzgrep to write arbitrary files on the system.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to compromise the affected system.
28) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-39325)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to excessive consumption of internal resources when handling HTTP/2 requests. A remote attacker can bypass the http2.Server.MaxConcurrentStreams setting by creating new connections while the current connections are still being processed, trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
29) NULL pointer dereference (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-35525)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a NULL pointer dereference error in the INTERSEC query processing. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
30) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2023-44487)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improperly control of consumption for internal resources when handling HTTP/2 requests with compressed HEADERS frames. A remote attacker can send a sequence of compressed HEADERS frames followed by RST_STREAM frames and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack, a.k.a. "Rapid Reset".
Note, the vulnerability is being actively exploited in the wild.
31) 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.
32) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-3709)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
33) Heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-17594)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in the "_nc_find_entry" function in "tinfo/comp_hash.c" in the terminfo library. A remote attacker can trigger heap-based buffer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
34) Buffer Over-read (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-17595)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to heap-based buffer over-read issue in the "fmt_entry" function in "tinfo/comp_hash.c" in the terminfo library. A remote attacker can trigger a buffer over-read condition and cause a denial of service condition on the target system.35) Heap-based buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-18218)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error within the cdf_read_property_info() function in cdf.c in file due to improper restrictions of the number of CDF_VECTOR elements. A local user can place a specially crafted CDF (Composite Document File) file on the system, trick the victim into reading it with the affected software, trigger heap-based buffer overflow (4-byte out-of-bounds write) and execute arbitrary code on the target system with elevated privileges.
36) Double Free (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-18874)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists because of refcount mishandling within a "while" or "for" loop that converts system data into a Python object. A remote attacker can trigger double free error and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
37) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-20838)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
libpcre in PCRE before 8.43 allows a subject buffer over-read in JIT when UTF is disabled, and X or R has more than one fixed quantifier, a related issue to CVE-2019-20454.
38) Integer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-14155)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to integer overflow. A remote attacker can pass a large number after a (?C substring, trigger integer overflow and execute arbitrary code on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
39) Integer underflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-24370)
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.
ldebug.c in Lua 5.4.0 allows a negation overflow and segmentation fault in getlocal and setlocal, as demonstrated by getlocal(3,2^31).
40) Incorrect Regular Expression (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-28493)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to incorrect subpattern applied to untrusted input. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform a regular expression DoS (ReDOS) attack.
41) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-35527)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition when handling ALTER TABLE for views that have a nested FROM clause. A remote attacker can pass specially crafted input to the application, trigger an out-of-bounds read error and read contents of memory on the system.
42) Path traversal (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-42771)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to user compromise the affected system.
The vulnerability exists due to input validation error when processing directory traversal sequences within the locale .dat files in Babel.Locale. A remote user can load a malicious .dat file containing serialized Python objects and execute arbitrary code on the system.
43) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-3580)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists in nettle's RSA decryption functions due to insufficient validation of certain ciphertexts. A remote attacker can send specially crafted data to the server and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
44) Buffer overflow (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-3634)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error when handling shared secrets. A remote attacker can supply a shared secret of a different size, trigger a memory corruption during the second key re-exchange and crash the application or potentially execute arbitrary code.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may result in complete compromise of vulnerable system.
45) Path traversal (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-20095)
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform directory traversal attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to input validation error when processing directory traversal sequences. A local user can load arbitrary files on disk and execute arbitrary code.
46) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-20231)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error in client sending key_share extension. A remote attacker can trick the victim to connect to a malicious server using a large Client Hello message over TLS 1.3, trigger a use-after-free error and crash the application or execute arbitrary code on the system.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
47) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-20232)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
The
vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error in client_send_params in lib/ext/pre_shared_key.c. A remote attacker can trick the victim to connect
to a malicious server using a large Client Hello message over TLS 1.3,
trigger a use-after-free error and crash the application or execute
arbitrary code on the system.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may allow an attacker to compromise vulnerable system.
48) UNIX symbolic link following (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-23177)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to a symlink following issue when extracting files from archive, which can lean to changing ACLs of the target of the link. A local user can create a specially crafted archive, trick the victim into extracting files from it and escalate privileges on the system.
49) UNIX symbolic link following (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-31566)
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to a symlink following issue when extracting files from the archive. A local user can create a specially crafted symbolic link to a critical file on the system, place it into an archive and modify modes, times, access control lists, and flags of a file outside of the archive.
50) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-36084)
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error within the __cil_verify_classperms() function in CIL compiler in SELinux. A local user can perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
51) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-36085)
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error within the __cil_verify_classperms() function in CIL compiler in SELinux. A local user can perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.52) Use-after-free (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-36086)
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a use-after-free error within the cil_reset_classpermission() function in CIL compiler in SELinux. A local user can perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.53) Out-of-bounds read (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-36087)
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to a boundary error in the ebitmap_match_any() function within the CIL compiler in SELinux. A local user can trigger an out-of-bounds read error and perform denial of service attack.
54) Use of a broken or risky cryptographic algorithm (CVE-ID: CVE-2021-40528)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to potentially sensitive information.
The vulnerability exists due to use of a broken or risky cryptographic algorithm in the ElGamal implementation. A remote attacker can gain unauthorized access to sensitive information on the system.
Remediation
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