An update is now available for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of
 Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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.

Security Fix(es):

* automation-eda-controller / ansible-rulebook /
 ansible-automation-platform-installer: Insecure websocket used when interacting with EDA server (CVE-2024-1657)

* python3-django/python39-django: denial-of-service in 'intcomma'
 template filter (CVE-2024-24680)

* python3-jinja2/python39-jinja2: HTML attribute injection when passing user
 input as keys to xmlattr filter (CVE-2024-22195)

* python3-aiohttp/python39-aiohttp: CRLF injection if user controls the HTTP method using aiohttp client (CVE-2023-49082)

* python3-aiohttp/python39-aiohttp: HTTP request modification (CVE-2023-49081)

* python3-aiohttp/python39-aiohttp: numerous issues in HTTP parser with header parsing (CVE-2023-47627)

* python3-pycryptodomex/python39-pycryptodomex: side-channel leakage for OAEP
 decryption in PyCryptodome and pycryptodomex (CVE-2023-52323)

* python3-pillow/python39-pillow: uncontrolled resource consumption when
 textlength in an ImageDraw instance operates on a long text argument (CVE-2023-44271)

* python3-pygments/python39-pygments: ReDoS in pygments (CVE-2022-40896)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
 score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Updates and fixes for automation controller:
* automation-controller has been updated to 4.5.2
* Enabled HashiCorp Vault LDAP and Userpass authentication (AAP-19842)

Updates and fixes for automation hub:
* automation-hub and python3-galaxy-ng/python39-galaxy-ng have been updated to
 4.9.1
* various dependencies have been updated

Updates and fixes for Event-Driven Ansible:
* automation-eda-controller has been updated to 1.0.5
* various dependencies have been updated
* Fixed a vulnerability that allowed command line injections in user and url
 fields for projects (AAP-17778)
* The communication between the activations and eda-server is now
 authenticated. Once EDA Controller is upgraded, all the existing running activations must be restarted with upgraded Decision Environment images (AAP-17619)
* Removed 409 conflict error when enabling an activation (AAP-16305)
* An activation status did not change to failed when an internal error occurred
 (AAP-16014)
* Restarting the EDA server can cause activation states to become stale
 (AAP-13064)
* RHEL 9.2 activations can not connect to the host (AAP-12929)
* Added podman_containers_conf_logs_max_size variable to control max log size
 for podman installations with a default value of 10 MiB (AAP-12295)

Note: The 2.4-6 installer/setup should be used to update Event-Driven Ansible
 to 1.0.5

Updates and fixes for installer and setup:
* Added podman_containers_conf_logs_max_size variable for containers.conf to
 control max log size for podman installations with a default value of 10 MiB (AAP-19775)
* EDA debug flag of false will now correctly disable django debug mode
 (AAP-19577)
* installer and setup have been updated to 2.4-6

Additional changes:
* ansible-builder has been updated to 3.0.1
* ansible-runner has been updated to 2.3.5
* ansible-dev-tools has been added

For more details about the updates and fixes included in this release, refer to
 the Release Notes.

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CVE-2022-40896: Unrestricted Upload of File with Dangerous Type (CWE-434)
CVE-2023-44271: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (CWE-400)
CVE-2023-47627: Inconsistent Interpretation of HTTP Requests ('HTTP
 Request/Response Smuggling') (CWE-444)
CVE-2023-49081: Improper Input Validation (CWE-20)
CVE-2023-49082: Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences ('CRLF
 Injection') (CWE-93)
CVE-2023-52323: Observable Discrepancy (CWE-203)
CVE-2024-1657: Missing Origin Validation in WebSockets (CWE-1385)
CVE-2024-22195: Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation
 ('Cross-site Scripting') (CWE-79)
CVE-2024-24680