Red Hat Ansible up to 3.1.4 Tower Interface Trojan Horse input validation

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Ansible up to 3.1.4. It has been rated as critical. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Tower Interface. The manipulation leads to input validation (Trojan Horse). This vulnerability is referenced as CVE-2017-12148. Remote exploitation of the attack is possible. No exploit is available. Upgrading the affected component is advised.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Ansible up to 3.1.4. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown function of the component Tower Interface. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a input validation vulnerability (Trojan Horse). Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-20. The product receives input or data, but it does not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the properties that are required to process the data safely and correctly. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

A flaw was found in Ansible Tower's interface before 3.1.5 and 3.2.0 with SCM repositories. If a Tower project (SCM repository) definition does not have the 'delete before update' flag set, an attacker with commit access to the upstream playbook source repository could create a Trojan playbook that, when executed by Tower, modifies the checked out SCM repository to add git hooks. These git hooks could, in turn, cause arbitrary command and code execution as the user Tower runs as.

The bug was discovered 07/27/2018. The weakness was published 07/27/2018 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). It is possible to read the advisory at bugzilla.redhat.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2017-12148 since 08/01/2017. The attack may be initiated remotely. The successful exploitation requires a simple authentication. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available.

Upgrading to version 3.1.5 or 3.2.0 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Exploitinginfo

Name: Trojan Horse
Class: Input validation / Trojan Horse
CWE: CWE-20
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Ansible 3.1.5/3.2.0

Timelineinfo

08/01/2017 🔍
07/27/2018 +360 days 🔍
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07/28/2018 +1 days 🔍
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Sourcesinfo

Vendor: redhat.com

Advisory: RHSA-2017:3005
Status: Not defined
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CVE: CVE-2017-12148 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2017-12148
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-122255

Entryinfo

Created: 07/28/2018 07:23
Updated: 04/27/2023 09:06
Changes: 07/28/2018 07:23 (59), 03/10/2020 17:31 (2), 08/22/2022 09:37 (4), 04/27/2023 09:06 (2)
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