CVE-2018-1101 - Weak Password Requirements

Severity

65%

Complexity

80%

Confidentiality

106%

Ansible Tower before version 3.2.4 has a flaw in the management of system and organization administrators that allows for privilege escalation. System administrators that are members of organizations can have their passwords reset by organization administrators, allowing organization administrators access to the entire system.

Ansible Tower before version 3.2.4 has a flaw in the management of system and organization administrators that allows for privilege escalation. System administrators that are members of organizations can have their passwords reset by organization administrators, allowing organization administrators access to the entire system.

CVSS 3.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H).

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 6.5. CVSS Attack Vector: network. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

Type

Red Hat

First reported 6 years ago

2018-05-02 18:29:00

Last updated 5 years ago

2019-10-09 23:38:00

Affected Software

Red Hat Ansible Tower

Red Hat CloudForms 4.5

4.5

Red Hat CloudForms 4.6

4.6

References

RHSA-2018:1328

Third Party Advisory

RHSA-2018:1972

Third Party Advisory

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-1101

Third Party Advisory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1563492

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory

https://www.ansible.com/security

Vendor Advisory

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