Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 Product Security and Bug Fix Update

Important

A flaw was found in the python protobuf package which can result in a denial of service. Applications that parse untrusted Protocol Buffers data containing an arbitrary number of recursive groups, recursive messages, or a series of SGROUP tags can be corrupted by exceeding the Python recursion limit. This can result in a Denial of service by crashing the application that integrates the package with a RecursionError.

CWE-674 - Uncontrolled Recursion

A request smuggling flaw was found in the aiohttp python library. If a pure Python version of aiohttp is installed, without the usual C extensions, for example, or if AIOHTTP_NO_EXTENSIONS is enabled, an attacker can execute a request smuggling attack to bypass certain firewalls or proxy protections.

CWE-444 - Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP Request/Response Smuggling')

A flaw was found in golang. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by providing a specially crafted certificate during the error string construction process within the `HostnameError.Error()` function. This flaw, caused by unbounded string concatenation, leads to excessive resource consumption. Successful exploitation can result in a denial of service (DoS) for the affected system.

CWE-1050 - Excessive Platform Resource Consumption within a Loop

A flaw was found in Django. This vulnerability allows a remote attacker to cause a potential denial-of-service (DoS) attack triggering Central Processing Unit (CPU) and memory exhaustion via specially crafted Extensible Markup Language (XML) input processed by the XML Deserializer.

CWE-407 - Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity

A decompression handling flaw has been discovered in urllib3. When streaming a compressed response, urllib3 can perform decoding or decompression based on the HTTP Content-Encoding header (e.g., gzip, deflate, br, or zstd). The library must read compressed data from the network and decompress it until the requested chunk size is met. Any resulting decompressed data that exceeds the requested amount is held in an internal buffer for the next read operation. The decompression logic could cause urllib3 to fully decode a small amount of highly compressed data in a single operation. This can result in excessive resource consumption (high CPU usage and massive memory allocation for the decompressed data; CWE-409) on the client side, even if the application only requested a small chunk of data.

CWE-409 - Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)

A decompression based denial of service flaw has been discovered in the AIOHTTP python library. Library versions 3.13.2 and below allow a zip bomb to be used to execute a DoS against the AIOHTTP server. An attacker may be able to send a compressed request that when decompressed by AIOHTTP could exhaust the host's memory.

CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling