CVE-2021-20253 (GCVE-0-2021-20253)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-03-09 17:14 – Updated: 2024-08-03 17:37
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
A flaw was found in ansible-tower. The default installation is vulnerable to Job Isolation escape allowing an attacker to elevate the privilege from a low privileged user to the awx user from outside the isolated environment. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.
Severity
6.7 (Medium)
CWE
Assigner
References
1 reference
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1928847 | x_refsource_MISC |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| n/a | ansible-tower |
Affected:
ansible-tower 3.8.2, ansible-tower 3.7.5, ansible-tower 3.6.7
|
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