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RHSA-2022:6079

Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2022-08-16 13:22 - Updated: 2026-06-26 15:50

Summary

Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.2.0 Product Security Update

Severity

Important

Notes

Topic: An update is now available for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.2 Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Details: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform provides an enterprise framework for building, deploying and managing IT automation at scale. IT Managers can provide top-down guidelines on how automation is applied to individual teams, while automation developers retain the freedom to write tasks that leverage existing knowledge without the overhead. Ansible Automation Platform makes it possible for users across an organization to share, vet, and manage automation content by means of a simple, powerful, and agentless language. Security Fix(es): * automation hub: Ansible: Logic flaw leads to privilege escalation (CVE-2022-2568) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Terms of Use: This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original.

CVE-2022-2568

A privilege escalation flaw was found in the Ansible Automation Platform. This flaw allows a remote authenticated user with 'change user' permissions to modify the account settings of the superuser account and also remove the superuser privileges.

7.2 (High)


                
                  CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CWE-269 - Improper Privilege Management

Affected products

Fixed 4 products

Product	Version	Remediation
Unresolved product id: 8Base-Ansible-Automation-Platform-2.2:python39-galaxy-ng-0:4.5.0-4.el8ap.noarch	—	Vendor Fix fix
Unresolved product id: 8Base-Ansible-Automation-Platform-2.2:python3x-galaxy-ng-0:4.5.0-4.el8ap.src	—	Vendor Fix fix
Unresolved product id: 9Base-Ansible-Automation-Platform-2.2:python-galaxy-ng-0:4.5.0-4.el9ap.src	—	Vendor Fix fix
Unresolved product id: 9Base-Ansible-Automation-Platform-2.2:python3-galaxy-ng-0:4.5.0-4.el9ap.noarch	—	Vendor Fix fix

Threats

Impact Important

References

8 references

URL	Category
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:6079	self
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classi…	external
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2108653	external
https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/a…	self
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-2568	self
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2108653	external
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-2568	external
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-2568	external

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CVE-2022-2568 (GCVE-0-2022-2568)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-08-18 19:28 – Updated: 2024-08-03 00:39

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Improper Privilege Management

Assigner

redhat CNA under the redhat root

CNA scorecard B 82/100 over 1082 records in the last 180 days details

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2108653	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
n/a	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform	Affected: 2.2

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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Sightings and recorded dates, grouped by day · UTC

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Following the VTEM framework (Black Hat USA 2015), time to patch starts when the vendor or a coordinator was informed, total time to patch at discovery, and disclosure to patch at public disclosure; vendor response time runs from the report to its acknowledgement. Time to exploit and time unpatched start at the earliest discovery or report, falling back to public disclosure. Unpatched time ends at the first recorded patch, or the calculation time when no patch is recorded. Exploitation to patch shows the interval between those two events; a published proof of concept is a public exploit, not exploitation.

Each result shows its source dates. A negative interval means the end event came first; when date-only inputs leave the order open, the result says so. Date-only inputs are approximate. The earliest evidence wins: KEV report dates and sightings are labelled as such. Records describing another vulnerability are listed but never calculated from, and a PoC alone does not establish exploitation. Missing patch evidence does not prove that no patch exists. Filters below change the event list only.

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