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    CVE-2021-20253

    A flaw was found in ansible-tower. The default installation is vulnerable to Job Isolation escape allowing an attacker to elevate the privilege from a low privileged user to the awx user from outside the isolated environment. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.

    Published:Mar 8, 2021
    Last Modified:Nov 21, 2024
    EPS:Mar 9, 2021
    EPSS Score:0.00278
    CVSS Score:6.7

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Ansible Automation Platform
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Ansible Tower

    Exploits

    https://github.com/mbadanoiu/CVE-2021-20253

    Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

    CAPEC-150 Collect Data from Common Resource Locations
    CAPEC-639 Probe System Files

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    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High