Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 Container Release Update

Important

A flaw was found in pip, the package installer for Python. A remote attacker can exploit this vulnerability by tricking a victim into installing a malicious Python wheel. This wheel contains specially crafted entry-point names that use directory traversal or absolute paths. This allows pip to write generated script wrappers outside the intended installation directory, leading to arbitrary file overwrite. This can severely impact system integrity and availability, and in certain scenarios, may lead to arbitrary code execution.

CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

A flaw was found in webpack-dev-server. When a user configures a proxy with a broad context, such as '/', and enables WebSocket (ws: true) forwarding, the development server's own Hot Module Replacement (HMR) WebSocket can be intercepted. This interception leads to the leakage of the browser's cookies and Origin header to the proxy target, bypassing the server's Host/Origin validation. Additionally, it can corrupt the HMR socket, resulting in a denial of service for the HMR functionality.

CWE-346 - Origin Validation Error

A flaw was found in ansible-core. The ansible-galaxy role install command processes dependency specifications from a role's meta/requirements.yml file. Due to improper neutralization of argument delimiters, a malicious role author can inject arbitrary git configuration flags through the src field. This allows arbitrary code execution on the machine of a user who installs the role via ansible-galaxy role install.

CWE-88 - Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection')

A flaw was found in brace-expansion. An attacker can exploit a vulnerability in the `expand()` function by providing a specially crafted string. This string, containing consecutive non-expanding brace groups, can trigger exponential-time complexity, leading to significant CPU consumption and event-loop blocking. This can result in a Denial of Service (DoS) for the affected system.

CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

A flaw was found in fast-uri. This vulnerability occurs because fast-uri fails to properly convert Unicode (Internationalized Domain Name - IDN) hostnames for HTTP-family URLs. This can lead to a situation where security policies, such as denylists or redirect validations, are bypassed when applications use fast-uri to enforce these policies before passing the URL to another parser. A remote attacker could exploit this to circumvent security controls and potentially access unauthorized resources or perform malicious redirects.

CWE-551 - Incorrect Behavior Order: Authorization Before Parsing and Canonicalization

A flaw was found in aap-gateway, a component of Ansible Automation Platform's Event-Driven Ansible (EDA). An unauthenticated remote attacker can bypass mutual Transport Layer Security (mTLS) authentication for event streams. This is achieved by manipulating the event stream URL and forging the HTTP Subject header. The system also inadvertently discloses the expected certificate subject in error messages, which simplifies the attack. This vulnerability allows an attacker to inject arbitrary events into EDA, potentially triggering automated workflows.

CWE-295 - Improper Certificate Validation

A flaw was found in AIOHTTP, an asynchronous HTTP client/server framework for asyncio and Python. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by providing untrusted input to the `CookieJar.load()` function. This could potentially lead to arbitrary code execution, allowing the attacker to run malicious code on the affected system. This issue is most likely to occur in applications that allow attacker-controlled files to be loaded.

CWE-502 - Deserialization of Untrusted Data