Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Role-Based Access Control add_roles_for_object_creator insecure inherited permissions

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A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Satellite and Update Infrastructure for Cloud Providers. Affected by this vulnerability is the function add_roles_for_object_creator of the component Role-Based Access Control. The manipulation leads to insecure inherited permissions. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2024-7143. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue.

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A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Satellite and Update Infrastructure for Cloud Providers (affected version unknown) and classified as problematic. This issue affects the function add_roles_for_object_creator of the component Role-Based Access Control. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a insecure inherited permissions vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-277. A product defines a set of insecure permissions that are inherited by objects that are created by the program. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

A flaw was found in the Pulp package. When a role-based access control (RBAC) object in Pulp is set to assign permissions on its creation, it uses the `AutoAddObjPermsMixin` (typically the add_roles_for_object_creator method). This method finds the object creator by checking the current authenticated user. For objects that are created within a task, this current user is set by the first user with any permissions on the task object. This means the oldest user with model/domain-level task permissions will always be set as the current user of a task, even if they didn't dispatch the task. Therefore, all objects created in tasks will have their permissions assigned to this oldest user, and the creating user will receive nothing.

It is possible to read the advisory at access.redhat.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-7143 since 07/26/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. The exploitation needs additional levels of successful authentication. Technical details of the vulnerability are known, but there is no available exploit. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1222 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

Applying a patch is able to eliminate this problem.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2024-2549). Be aware that VulDB is the high quality source for vulnerability data.

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• Automation Software

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• Red Hat

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• Ansible Automation Platform
• Satellite
• Update Infrastructure for Cloud Providers

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• open-source

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• Vendor: https://www.redhat.com/

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