Red Hat Ansible Tower up to 2.0.3 User Account access control

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as critical has been reported in Red Hat Ansible Tower up to 2.0.3. This affects an unknown part of the component User Account. The manipulation leads to access control. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2015-1481. Furthermore, there is an exploit available. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Ansible Tower up to 2.0.3. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown code of the component User Account. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a access control vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-264. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

Ansible Tower (aka Ansible UI) before 2.0.5 allows remote organization administrators to gain privileges by creating a superuser account.

The weakness was shared 02/04/2015 (Website). The advisory is shared at sec-consult.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2015-1481 since 02/04/2015. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. A simple authentication is needed for exploitation. Technical details are unknown but a public exploit is available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1068 for this issue.

A public exploit has been developed by SEC Consult and been published even before and not after the advisory. The exploit is available at exploit-db.com. It is declared as proof-of-concept. The vulnerability was handled as a non-public zero-day exploit for at least 21 days. During that time the estimated underground price was around $5k-$25k.

Upgrading to version 2.0.4 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Exploit-DB (35786). The entries VDB-73890 and VDB-73784 are related to this item. Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.3
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 5.7

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Access control
CWE: CWE-264
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Access: Public
Status: Proof-of-Concept
Author: SEC Consult
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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Ansible Tower 2.0.4

Timelineinfo

01/14/2015 🔍
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02/04/2015 +21 days 🔍
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03/27/2015 +51 days 🔍
12/27/2024 +3563 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: redhat.com

Advisory: 129944
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2015-1481 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2015-1481
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-73889
scip Labs: https://www.scip.ch/en/?labs.20161013
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Entryinfo

Created: 03/27/2015 14:56
Updated: 12/27/2024 17:15
Changes: 03/27/2015 14:56 (44), 04/07/2018 10:19 (13), 04/12/2022 13:39 (3), 08/22/2022 09:36 (3), 12/27/2024 17:15 (14)
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Cache ID: 216::103

Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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