Command injection in Ansible Tower - CVE-2018-1104

 

Command injection in Ansible Tower - CVE-2018-1104

Published: May 18, 2018


Vulnerability identifier: #VU12839
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-1104
CWE-ID: CWE-77
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: Red Hat Inc.
Affected software:
Ansible Tower

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code on the target system.

The weakness exists in user-provided extra_vars due to command injection via Jinja2 variables. A remote attacker can execute arbitrary code.

Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.

How to mitigate CVE-2018-1104

Update to version 3.2.4.

Sources