CVE-2021-20253 (GCVE-0-2021-20253)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-03-09 17:14 – Updated: 2024-08-03 17:37
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Summary
A flaw was found in ansible-tower. The default installation is vulnerable to Job Isolation escape allowing an attacker to elevate the privilege from a low privileged user to the awx user from outside the isolated environment. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.
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Vendor Product Version
n/a ansible-tower Affected: ansible-tower 3.8.2, ansible-tower 3.7.5, ansible-tower 3.6.7
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