Exposure of RabbitMQ Management Interface in Ansible Tower
CVE-2019-19340

8.2HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor

Red Hat
Status
Tower
Vendor
CVE Published:
19 December 2019

What is CVE-2019-19340?

A security misconfiguration was identified in Ansible Tower, affecting versions 3.6.x prior to 3.6.2 and 3.5.x prior to 3.5.3. When the RabbitMQ management interface is enabled using the flag '-e rabbitmq_enable_manager=true', it becomes exposed to the public. If the default admin account remains active, it presents an opportunity for attackers to exploit weak or guessed passwords, potentially allowing unauthorized access to the system.

Affected Version(s)

Tower ansible_tower versions 3.6.x before 3.6.2

Tower ansible_tower versions 3.5.x before 3.5.4

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-19340
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
8.2
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
None
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
None
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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