Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 Product Security and Bug Fix Update

Important

A flaw was found in lodash. The fix for CVE-2021-23337 added validation for the variable option in _.template but did not apply the same validation to options.imports key names. Both paths flow into the same Function() constructor sink. Additionally, _.template uses assignInWith to merge imports, which enumerates inherited properties via for..in. If Object.prototype has been polluted by any other vector, the polluted keys are copied into the imports object and passed to Function().

CWE-94 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

A flaw was found in fast-uri. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by providing a specially crafted Uniform Resource Locator (URL) containing percent-encoded path separators and dot segments. Due to incorrect processing, fast-uri would decode these elements before proper normalization, leading to distinct URLs resolving to the same internal path. This could allow an attacker to bypass security policies that rely on path-based comparisons, potentially gaining unauthorized access to resources.

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

A flaw was found in fast-uri. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by crafting a malicious Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that contains percent-encoded authority delimiters. The fast-uri library incorrectly decodes these delimiters during normalization and then re-emits them as raw separators, which can change the URI's intended authority. This issue allows applications that perform host allowlist checks, redirect validation, or outbound request routing to be steered to a different authority than specified, potentially bypassing security controls.

CWE-140 - Improper Neutralization of Delimiters

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 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 the AAP Gateway Envoy proxy configuration. The non-mTLS route to EDA event streams does not remove the Subject HTTP header from client requests, despite the source code defining requestHeadersToRemove for this header. An unauthenticated remote attacker can inject a spoofed Subject header matching a legitimate client certificate DN to bypass mTLS authentication and inject arbitrary events into protected EDA event streams.

CWE-290 - Authentication Bypass by Spoofing