Ansible Tower through version 3.2.3 has a vulnerability that allows users only with access to define variables for a job template to execute arbitrary code on the Tower server.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:1972 advisory.

    Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine delivers the insight, control, and automation needed to address the     challenges of managing virtual environments. CloudForms Management Engine is built on Ruby on Rails, a     model-view-controller (MVC) framework for web application development.

    Security Fix(es):

    * python-paramiko: Authentication bypass in transport.py (CVE-2018-7750)

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

    * ansible-tower: Remote code execution by users with access to define variables in job templates     (CVE-2018-1104)

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related     information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    Red Hat would like to thank Simon Vikstrm for reporting CVE-2018-1104. The CVE-2018-1101 issue was     discovered by Graham Mainwaring (Red Hat).

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2018:1328 advisory.

    Red Hat CloudForms Management Engine delivers the insight, control, and automation needed to address the     challenges of managing virtual environments. CloudForms Management Engine is built on Ruby on Rails, a     model-view-controller (MVC) framework for web application development. Action Pack implements the     controller and the view components.

    Security Fix(es):

    * python-paramiko: Authentication bypass in transport.py (CVE-2018-7750)

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

    Red Hat would like to thank Graham Mainwaring of Red Hat for reporting CVE-2018-1101.

    * ansible-tower: Remote code execution by users with access to define variables in job templates     (CVE-2018-1104)

    Red Hat would like to thank Simon Vikstrm for reporting CVE-2018-1104.

    For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related     information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

    Additional Changes:

    This update also fixes several bugs and adds various enhancements. Documentation for these changes is     available from the Release Notes document linked to in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
194115	RHEL 7 : Red Hat CloudForms (RHSA-2018:1972)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	Local	critical
193821	RHEL 7 : CloudForms 4.6.2 update (Important) (RHSA-2018:1328)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	Local	critical

Detections

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CVE-2018-1104

high

Tenable Plugins

critical

critical