RHBA-2023:5653

Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2023-10-10 21:19 - Updated: 2026-02-25 18:32
Summary
Red Hat Bug Fix Advisory: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 Setup Bundle Release Update
Severity
Moderate
Notes
Topic: An update is now available for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 Setup Bundle
Details: 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. Setup bundle 2.4-2.1 includes the updates released in the following advisories: RHBA-2023:5403 * automation-controller 4.4.5 * python3-galaxy-importer/python39-galaxy-importer 0.4.13 RHBA-2023:5369 * ansible-lint 6.14.3-2 RHBA-2023:5506 * python3-pulp-ansible/python39-pulp-ansible 0.17.5 Additional changes: * Updated amazon.aws certified collection to 6.4.0 (AAP-15138)
Terms of Use: This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original.
CVE-2023-4237

A flaw was found in the Ansible Automation Platform. When creating a new keypair, the ec2_key module prints out the private key directly to the standard output. This flaw allows an attacker to fetch those keys from the log files, compromising the system's confidentiality, integrity, and availability.

7.3 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE-497 - Exposure of Sensitive System Information to an Unauthorized Control Sphere
Affected products
Product Identifier Version Remediation
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8
Red Hat / Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.4::el8 —
Vendor Fix fix
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9
Red Hat / Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.4::el9 —
Vendor Fix fix
Threats
Impact Moderate
References
Acknowledgments
redhat Jill Rouleau
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