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Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 Product Security and Bug Fix Update

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Medium
Published: Fri Sep 27 2024 (09/27/2024, 04:34:17 UTC)
Source: GCVE Database
Vendor/Project: Red Hat Product Security
Product: Red Hat

Description

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2. 4 has multiple security vulnerabilities including cross-site scripting (XSS) issues in the automation-controller component and a proxy-authorization header handling flaw during cross-origin redirects. These vulnerabilities affect various Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2. 4 versions for RHEL 8 and 9. Red Hat has released an update to automation-controller version 4. 5. 12 addressing these issues. The security impact is rated moderate by Red Hat. No known exploits in the wild have been reported at this time.

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Technical Analysis

This advisory covers three security vulnerabilities in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4's automation-controller: CVE-2024-21520 is a cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability via break_long_headers in djangorestframework; CVE-2024-41810 is a reflected XSS via HTML injection in redirect responses in twisted; CVE-2024-37891 involves urllib3 not stripping the proxy-authorization request header during cross-origin redirects. These issues could allow an attacker to execute malicious scripts or leak sensitive headers under certain conditions. Red Hat has released automation-controller version 4.5.12 with fixes for these vulnerabilities.

Potential Impact

The vulnerabilities could allow attackers to perform cross-site scripting attacks or leak proxy-authorization headers during redirects, potentially leading to unauthorized script execution or sensitive information disclosure within the affected Ansible Automation Platform environment. The overall security impact is rated moderate by Red Hat. There are no reports of known exploits in the wild at this time.

Mitigation Recommendations

Red Hat has provided an official fix by releasing automation-controller version 4.5.12 which addresses these vulnerabilities. Users of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8 and 9 should update to this version to remediate the issues. Patch status is confirmed as fixed by the vendor advisory. No additional mitigation steps are indicated beyond applying the update.

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Technical Details

Gcve Source
db.gcve.eu
Csaf Category
csaf_security_advisory
Csaf Version
2.0
Publisher
Red Hat Product Security
Advisory Id
RHSA-2024:7312
Cve Count
3
Additional Cves
["CVE-2024-37891","CVE-2024-41810"]
Cvss Version
null

Threat ID: 6a1f4e82e29bf47b5007cf9e

Added to database: 6/2/2026, 9:43:30 PM

Last enriched: 6/2/2026, 9:46:30 PM

Last updated: 6/3/2026, 5:04:14 AM

Views: 2

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