PT-2018-10238 · Red Hat · Ansible Tower

Sam Fowler · Published 2018-05-02 · Updated 2019-10-09 · CVE-2018-1101

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

7.2

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Ansible Tower versions prior to 3.2.4

Description The issue is related to a flaw in the management of system and organization administrators, allowing for privilege escalation. Specifically, system administrators who are members of organizations can have their passwords reset by organization administrators, which enables organization administrators to gain access to the entire system.

Recommendations For versions prior to 3.2.4, update to version 3.2.4 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Incorrect Privilege Assignment

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-521

CWE-266

Related Identifiers

CVE-2018-1101

RHSA-2018:1328

RHSA-2018:1972

Affected Products

Ansible Tower

References · 7

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1328 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ansible.com/security · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2018-1101 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-1101 · Security Note
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1972 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1563492 · Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-1101 · Note