CVE-2021-4112

HIGH

Ansible-Tower - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A flaw was found in ansible-tower where the default installation is vulnerable to job isolation escape. This flaw allows an attacker to elevate the privilege from a low privileged user to an AWX user from outside the isolated environment.

References (2)

Core 2
Core References
Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2028121
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-4112

Scores

CVSS v3 8.8
EPSS 0.0012
EPSS Percentile 30.1%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-552
Status published
Products (5)
redhat/ansible_automation_platform 2.0
redhat/ansible_automation_platform 2.1
redhat/ansible_automation_platform_early_access 2.0
redhat/ansible_automation_platform_text-only_advisories
redhat/ansible_tower 3.0
Published Aug 25, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026