cve-2024-6840
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-09-12 16:35
Modified
2024-09-16 20:43
Severity ?
6.6 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
Summary
Automation-controller: gain access to the k8s api server via job execution with container group
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6428
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-6840
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2298492
Impacted products
Red HatRed Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8
Red HatRed Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9
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