Environment Variable Exposure in Ansible Tower on OpenShift and Kubernetes
CVE-2019-3869

7.2HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor

Red Hat
Status
Tower
Vendor
CVE Published:
28 March 2019

What is CVE-2019-3869?

Ansible Tower versions before 3.4.3, when deployed on OpenShift or Kubernetes, expose sensitive application credentials through environment variables during playbook job executions. This flaw allows any malicious user with permission to create or modify playbooks to potentially escalate their privileges, granting them unauthorized access and control over the application.

Affected Version(s)

Tower 3.3.5

Tower 3.4.3

References

https://github.com/ansible/awx/pull/3505
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3869
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.2
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
High
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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