Ansible Tower 3.1.x < 3.1.8 / 3.2.x < 3.2.6 CSRF vulnerability

high Nessus Plugin ID 112212

Synopsis

An IT monitoring application running on the remote host is affected by a CSRF vulnerability.

Description

The version of Ansible Tower running on the remote web server is 3.1.x prior to 3.1.8 or 3.2.x prior to 3.2.6. It is, therefore, affected by a cross-site request forgery vulnerability in awx/api/authentication.py.

Solution

Upgrade to Ansible Tower version 3.1.8/ 3.2.6 or later.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?853d1997

http://www.nessus.org/u?60db231b

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 112212

File Name: ansible_tower_3_2_6.nasl

Version: 1.6

Type: combined

Family: CGI abuses

Published: 8/31/2018

Updated: 4/11/2022

Configuration: Enable thorough checks

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-10884

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:ansible:tower

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/13/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/13/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-10884

BID: 105136