Bug 1563492 – CVE-2018-1101 ansible-tower: Privilege escalation flaw allows for organization admins to obtain system privileges

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Bug 1563492 - (CVE-2018-1101) CVE-2018-1101 ansible-tower: Privilege escalation flaw allows for organization admins to obtain system privileges

Summary:	CVE-2018-1101 ansible-tower: Privilege escalation flaw allows for organizatio...

Status:	NEW

Aliases:	CVE-2018-1101

Product:	Security Response
Classification:	Other
Component:	vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All Linux

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Keywords:	Security

Depends On:	1572745 1572746
Blocks:	1563493
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Reported:	2018-04-03 22:34 EDT by Sam Fowler
Modified:	2018-06-25 10:17 EDT (History)
CC List:	17 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	ansible-tower 3.1.6, ansible-tower 3.2.4
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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.
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2018:1328	None	None	None	2018-05-07 16:42 EDT
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2018:1972	None	None	None	2018-06-25 10:17 EDT

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Description Sam Fowler 2018-04-03 22:34:16 EDT

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 12:04:43 EDT

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

Comment 3 Kurt Seifried 2018-05-02 12:06:04 EDT

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 02:21:45 EDT

Acknowledgments:

Name: Graham Mainwaring (Red Hat)

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2018-05-07 16:42:22 EDT

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 10:16:54 EDT

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

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