CVE-2021-4112 (GCVE-0-2021-4112)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-08-25 19:35 – Updated: 2024-08-03 17:16
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Summary
A flaw was found in ansible-tower where the default installation is vulnerable to job isolation escape. This flaw allows an attacker to elevate the privilege from a low privileged user to an AWX user from outside the isolated environment.
Severity
8.8 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-552 - - Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a ansible-tower Affected: Fixed in ansible-tower 3.8.5
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