cve-2024-6840
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-09-12 16:35
Modified
2024-12-30 22:54
Severity ?
6.6 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
Summary
An improper authorization flaw exists in the Ansible Automation Controller. This flaw allows an attacker using the k8S API server to send an HTTP request with a service account token mounted via `automountServiceAccountToken: true`, resulting in privilege escalation to a service account.
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
Vendor Product Version
Version: 4.5.10-1   ≤
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   Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8 Unaffected: 0:4.5.10-1.el8ap   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_inside:2.4::el8
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.4::el9
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.4::el8
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_inside:2.4::el9
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.4::el9
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.4::el8
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   Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9 Unaffected: 0:4.5.10-1.el9ap   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_inside:2.4::el8
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.4::el9
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    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_inside:2.4::el9
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.4::el9
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.4::el8
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