Bug 1563492 (CVE-2018-1101)

Summary:	CVE-2018-1101 ansible-tower: Privilege escalation flaw allows for organization admins to obtain system privileges
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Sam Fowler <sfowler>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	unspecified	CC:	cpelland, dajohnso, gblomqui, gmccullo, gtanzill, hhudgeon, jfrey, jhardy, jprause, obarenbo, roliveri, rpetrell, security-response-team, simaishi
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	ansible-tower 3.1.6, ansible-tower 3.2.4	Doc Type:	If docs needed, set a value
Doc Text:	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.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2019-06-10 10:19:33 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	1572745, 1572746
Bug Blocks:	1563493

Description Sam Fowler 2018-04-04 02:34:16 UTC

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.

Comment 2 Kurt Seifried 2018-05-02 16:04:43 UTC

This is now public: https://www.ansible.com/security

Comment 3 Kurt Seifried 2018-05-02 16:06:04 UTC

This issue has been addressed in Ansible Tower release 3.1.6 and 3.2.4, for more information please see https://www.ansible.com/security

Comment 5 Borja Tarraso 2018-05-03 06:21:45 UTC

Acknowledgments:

Name: Graham Mainwaring (Red Hat)

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2018-05-07 20:42:22 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  CloudForms Management Engine 5.9

Via RHSA-2018:1328 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1328

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2018-06-25 14:16:54 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  CloudForms Management Engine 5.8

Via RHSA-2018:1972 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1972