CVE-2021-20253 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2021-20253

A flaw was found in ansible-tower. The default installation is...

Vulnerability Description

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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

ansible-tower
Vulnerable Versions:
ansible-tower 3.8.2, ansible-tower 3.7.5, ansible-tower 3.6.7

Timeline

Official Publish: March 9th, 2021
Last Modified: August 3rd, 2024
Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)