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RHBA-2019_0885

Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2019-04-25 09:10 - Updated: 2024-11-15 05:12

Summary

Red Hat Bug Fix Advisory: Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.4.3-4 - Container

Severity

Moderate

Notes

Topic: Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.4.3-4 - Container

Details: - Fixed an issue to no longer expose Tower service credentials to playbook runs via environment variables when running in OpenShift (CVE-2019-3869)

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CVE-2019-3869

When running Tower on OpenShift or Kubernetes, application credentials are exposed to playbook job runs via environment variables. A malicious user with the ability to write playbooks could use this to gain administrative privileges.

7.2 (High)


                
                  CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE-214 - Invocation of Process Using Visible Sensitive Information

Affected products

Fixed 3 products

Product	Version	Remediation
Unresolved product id: 7Server-Ansible-Tower-3.4:ansible-tower-34/ansible-tower-memcached@sha256:a3e44622333de3e0ad7c6994d263f20a2a5bcf5ec7b7c2f4f7952be953ac1e75_amd64	—	Vendor Fix fix
Unresolved product id: 7Server-Ansible-Tower-3.4:ansible-tower-34/ansible-tower-messaging@sha256:ba302a84437efe7bbb3e21fe7c6cb50944fd5b02261c3016d92deb9d5dc01f20_amd64	—	Vendor Fix fix
Unresolved product id: 7Server-Ansible-Tower-3.4:ansible-tower-34/ansible-tower@sha256:a80eb91881750d7de307452dc8174391d8690a3bd193abe6af5083664092bddf_amd64	—	Vendor Fix fix

Threats

Impact Moderate

References

7 references

URL	Category
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0885	self
https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/a…	self
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-3869	self
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1688508	external
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-3869	external
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-3869	external
https://github.com/ansible/awx/pull/3505	external

Acknowledgments

FactSet Research Systems Inc Chris Bertsch

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CVE-2019-3869 (GCVE-0-2019-3869)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2019-03-28 13:04 – Updated: 2024-08-04 19:19

Summary

When running Tower before 3.4.3 on OpenShift or Kubernetes, application credentials are exposed to playbook job runs via environment variables. A malicious user with the ability to write playbooks could use this to gain administrative privileges.

Severity

7.2 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE

CWE-214

Assigner

redhat redhat root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/ansible/awx/pull/3505	x_refsource_MISC
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2…	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Red Hat	Tower	Affected: 3.3.5 Affected: 3.4.3

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    "assignerShortName": "redhat",
    "cveId": "CVE-2019-3869",
    "datePublished": "2019-03-28T13:04:59.000Z",
    "dateReserved": "2019-01-03T00:00:00.000Z",
    "dateUpdated": "2024-08-04T19:19:18.595Z",
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RHBA-2019_0885

CVE-2019-3869 (GCVE-0-2019-3869)

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