{
  "threat_severity" : "Important",
  "public_date" : "2021-03-08T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "ansible-tower: Privilege escalation via job isolation escape",
    "id" : "1928847",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1928847"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "6.7",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-552",
  "details" : [ "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.", "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." ],
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank Matei Mal Badanoiu (Deloitte Romania) for reporting this issue.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.6 for RHEL 7",
    "release_date" : "2021-03-09T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2021:0778",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_tower:3.6::el7",
    "package" : "ansible-tower-36/ansible-tower:3.6.7-1"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.7 for RHEL 7",
    "release_date" : "2021-03-09T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2021:0779",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_tower:3.7::el7",
    "package" : "ansible-tower-37/ansible-tower-rhel7:3.7.5-1"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.8 for RHEL 7",
    "release_date" : "2021-03-09T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2021:0780",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:3.8::el7",
    "package" : "ansible-tower-38/ansible-runner-rhel7:1.4.7-1"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Ansible Tower 3.8 for RHEL 7",
    "release_date" : "2021-03-09T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2021:0780",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:3.8::el7",
    "package" : "ansible-tower-38/ansible-tower-rhel7:3.8.2-1"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 1.2",
    "fix_state" : "Affected",
    "package_name" : "ansible-tower",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-20253\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-20253" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2021-20253",
  "mitigation" : {
    "value" : "Red Hat has investigated whether a possible mitigation exists for this issue, and has not been able to identify a practical example. Please update as soon as possible.",
    "lang" : "en:us"
  },
  "csaw" : false
}