A Red Hat Ansible Ansible Tower 3.8 security update has been released.

RHSA-2022:0482-01: Important: Red Hat Ansible Ansible Tower 3.8 security update

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Important: Red Hat Ansible Ansible Tower 3.8 security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:0482-01
Product: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Advisory URL:   https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:0482
Issue date: 2022-02-08
CVE Names: CVE-2021-4112
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1. Summary:

An update is now available for Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.8.

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.

2. Description:

Red Hat Ansible Tower 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 Tower 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):

* Ansible: ansible-tower: Privilege escalation via job isolation escape
(CVE-2021-4112)

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.

3. Solution:

This update applies a vulnerability fix to the ansible-tower and
ansible-runner rpms. Apply this fix by running the platform installer
(setup.sh).

4. Bugs fixed (  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

2028121 - CVE-2021-4112 ansible-tower: Privilege escalation via job isolation escape

5. References:

  https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-4112
  https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

6. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is . More contact
details at   https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

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