Insecure inherited permissions in Pulp - CVE-2024-7143

Vulnerability identifier: #VU97631

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 5.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2024-7143

CWE-ID: CWE-277

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows a remote user to escalate privileges within the application.

The vulnerability exists due to the way permissions are assigned on new tasks with RBAC enabled. A remote user can use a specially crafted task that creates new objects. Such objects will be owned by the oldest user with model/domain-level task permissions within the application and executed with privileges of such a user.

Pulp
IBM Concert Software
Ansible Automation Platform
IBM API Connect
Business Automation Insights
receptor (Red Hat package)
python3x-urllib3 (Red Hat package)
python-urllib3 (Red Hat package)
python3x-pulpcore (Red Hat package)
python-pulpcore (Red Hat package)
python3x-django (Red Hat package)
python-django (Red Hat package)
automation-controller (Red Hat package)

Install updates from vendor's website.

IBM Concert Software - update to 1.1.0
IBM API Connect - update to 10.0.8.5
Business Automation Insights - addressed in versions 24.0.0.0.5, 24.0.1.0.6, 25.0.0.0.3
receptor (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 1.4.8-1.1.el8ap, 1.4.8-1.1.el9ap
python3x-urllib3 (Red Hat package) - update to 1.26.20-1.el8ap
python-urllib3 (Red Hat package) - update to 1.26.20-1.el9ap
Ansible Automation Platform - update to 2.4
python3x-pulpcore (Red Hat package) - update to 3.28.32-1.el8ap
python-pulpcore (Red Hat package) - update to 3.28.32-1.el9ap
python3x-django (Red Hat package) - update to 4.2.16-1.el8ap
python-django (Red Hat package) - update to 4.2.16-1.el9ap
automation-controller (Red Hat package) - addressed in versions 4.5.11-1.el8ap, 4.5.11-1.el9ap

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-7143
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2300125
• https://github.com/pulp/pulpcore/blob/93f241f34c503da0fbac94bdba739feda2636e12/pulpcore/tasking/_util.py#L108
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6765

• Privilege escalation in Pulp
• Multiple vulnerabilities in Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 packages
• Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Concert Software
• Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM API Connect
• Multiple vulnerabilities in IBM Business Automation Insights