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Recent Red Hat Ansible Tower Security Advisories

Advisory Title Published
RHSA-2022:0482 (RHSA-2022:0482) Important: Red Hat Ansible Ansible Tower 3.8 security update February 8, 2022

By the Year

In 2024 there have been 0 vulnerabilities in Red Hat Ansible Tower . Ansible Tower did not have any published security vulnerabilities last year.

Year Vulnerabilities Average Score
2024 0 0.00
2023 0 0.00
2022 1 8.80
2021 14 5.39
2020 19 5.55
2019 10 6.97
2018 21 7.35

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Recent Red Hat Ansible Tower Security Vulnerabilities

A flaw was found in ansible-tower where the default installation is vulnerable to job isolation escape

CVE-2021-4112 8.8 - High - August 25, 2022

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.

Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties

A flaw was found in Ansible, where a user's controller is vulnerable to template injection

CVE-2021-3583 7.1 - High - September 22, 2021

A flaw was found in Ansible, where a user's controller is vulnerable to template injection. This issue can occur through facts used in the template if the user is trying to put templates in multi-line YAML strings and the facts being handled do not routinely include special template characters. This flaw allows attackers to perform command injection, which discloses sensitive information. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality and integrity.

Code Injection

Rejected reason: This CVE is marked as INVALID and not a bug

CVE-2021-3532 - June 09, 2021

Rejected reason: This CVE is marked as INVALID and not a bug

Rejected reason: This vulnerability does not meet the criteria for a security vulnerability

CVE-2021-3533 - June 09, 2021

Rejected reason: This vulnerability does not meet the criteria for a security vulnerability

A Server-side request forgery (SSRF) flaw was found in Ansible Tower in versions before 3.6.5 and before 3.7.2

CVE-2020-14327 5.5 - Medium - May 27, 2021

A Server-side request forgery (SSRF) flaw was found in Ansible Tower in versions before 3.6.5 and before 3.7.2. Functionality on the Tower server is abused by supplying a URL that could lead to the server processing it. This flaw leads to the connection to internal services or the exposure of additional internal services by abusing the test feature of lookup credentials to forge HTTP/HTTPS requests from the server and retrieving the results of the response.

XSPA

A data exposure flaw was found in Ansible Tower in versions before 3.7.2, where sensitive data can be exposed

CVE-2020-14329 3.3 - Low - May 27, 2021

A data exposure flaw was found in Ansible Tower in versions before 3.7.2, where sensitive data can be exposed from the /api/v2/labels/ endpoint. This flaw allows users from other organizations in the system to retrieve any label from the organization and also disclose organization names. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.

Information Disclosure

A flaw was found in Ansible Tower in versions before 3.7.2

CVE-2020-14328 3.3 - Low - May 27, 2021

A flaw was found in Ansible Tower in versions before 3.7.2. A Server Side Request Forgery flaw can be abused by supplying a URL which could lead to the server processing it connecting to internal services or exposing additional internal services and more particularly retrieving full details in case of error. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality.

XSPA

A flaw was found in Ansible Tower when running jobs

CVE-2020-10698 3.3 - Low - May 27, 2021

A flaw was found in Ansible Tower when running jobs. This flaw allows an attacker to access the stdout of the executed jobs which are run from other organizations. Some sensible data can be disclosed. However, critical data should not be disclosed, as it should be protected by the no_log flag when debugging is enabled. This flaw affects Ansible Tower versions before 3.6.4, Ansible Tower versions before 3.5.6 and Ansible Tower versions before 3.4.6.

A flaw was found in Ansible Tower when running Openshift

CVE-2020-10697 4.4 - Medium - May 27, 2021

A flaw was found in Ansible Tower when running Openshift. Tower runs a memcached, which is accessed via TCP. An attacker can take advantage of writing a playbook polluting this cache, causing a denial of service attack. This attack would not completely stop the service, but in the worst-case scenario, it can reduce the Tower performance, for which memcached is designed. Theoretically, more sophisticated attacks can be performed by manipulating and crafting the cache, as Tower relies on memcached as a place to pull out setting values. Confidential and sensitive data stored in memcached should not be pulled, as this information is encrypted. This flaw affects Ansible Tower versions before 3.6.4, Ansible Tower versions before 3.5.6 and Ansible Tower versions before 3.4.6.

A security flaw was found in Ansible Tower when requesting an OAuth2 token with an OAuth2 application

CVE-2020-10709 7.1 - High - May 27, 2021

A security flaw was found in Ansible Tower when requesting an OAuth2 token with an OAuth2 application. Ansible Tower uses the token to provide authentication. This flaw allows an attacker to obtain a refresh token that does not expire. The original token granted to the user still has access to Ansible Tower, which allows any user that can gain access to the token to be fully authenticated to Ansible Tower. This flaw affects Ansible Tower versions before 3.6.4 and Ansible Tower versions before 3.5.6.

authentification

A flaw was found in ansible

CVE-2021-20191 5.5 - Medium - May 26, 2021

A flaw was found in ansible. Credentials, such as secrets, are being disclosed in console log by default and not protected by no_log feature when using those modules. An attacker can take advantage of this information to steal those credentials. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality. Versions before ansible 2.9.18 are affected.

Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

A flaw was found in ansible module where credentials are disclosed in the console log by default and not protected by the security feature when using the bitbucket_pipeline_variable module

CVE-2021-20178 5.5 - Medium - May 26, 2021

A flaw was found in ansible module where credentials are disclosed in the console log by default and not protected by the security feature when using the bitbucket_pipeline_variable module. This flaw allows an attacker to steal bitbucket_pipeline credentials. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.

Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

A flaw was found in the Ansible Engine 2.9.18

CVE-2021-20228 7.5 - High - April 29, 2021

A flaw was found in the Ansible Engine 2.9.18, where sensitive info is not masked by default and is not protected by the no_log feature when using the sub-option feature of the basic.py module. This flaw allows an attacker to obtain sensitive information. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality.

Information Disclosure

A flaw was found in several ansible modules

CVE-2021-3447 5.5 - Medium - April 01, 2021

A flaw was found in several ansible modules, where parameters containing credentials, such as secrets, were being logged in plain-text on managed nodes, as well as being made visible on the controller node when run in verbose mode. These parameters were not protected by the no_log feature. An attacker can take advantage of this information to steal those credentials, provided when they have access to the log files containing them. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality. This flaw affects Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform in versions before 1.2.2 and Ansible Tower in versions before 3.8.2.

Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

A flaw was found in ansible-tower

CVE-2021-20253 6.7 - Medium - March 09, 2021

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.

Files or Directories Accessible to External Parties

A flaw was found in the Ansible Engine

CVE-2020-14365 7.1 - High - September 23, 2020

A flaw was found in the Ansible Engine, in ansible-engine 2.8.x before 2.8.15 and ansible-engine 2.9.x before 2.9.13, when installing packages using the dnf module. GPG signatures are ignored during installation even when disable_gpg_check is set to False, which is the default behavior. This flaw leads to malicious packages being installed on the system and arbitrary code executed via package installation scripts. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to integrity and system availability.

Improper Verification of Cryptographic Signature

A data exposure flaw was found in Tower, where sensitive data was revealed from the HTTP return error codes

CVE-2020-14337 5.8 - Medium - July 31, 2020

A data exposure flaw was found in Tower, where sensitive data was revealed from the HTTP return error codes. This flaw allows an unauthenticated, remote attacker to retrieve pages from the default organization and verify existing usernames. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality.

Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information

An exposure of sensitive information flaw was found in Ansible version 3.7.0

CVE-2020-10782 6.5 - Medium - June 18, 2020

An exposure of sensitive information flaw was found in Ansible version 3.7.0. Sensitive information, such tokens and other secrets could be readable and exposed from the rsyslog configuration file, which has set the wrong world-readable permissions. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality. This is fixed in Ansible version 3.7.1.

Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

An incomplete fix was found for the fix of the flaw CVE-2020-1733 ansible: insecure temporary directory when running become_user

CVE-2020-10744 5 - Medium - May 15, 2020

An incomplete fix was found for the fix of the flaw CVE-2020-1733 ansible: insecure temporary directory when running become_user from become directive. The provided fix is insufficient to prevent the race condition on systems using ACLs and FUSE filesystems. Ansible Engine 2.7.18, 2.8.12, and 2.9.9 as well as previous versions are affected and Ansible Tower 3.4.5, 3.5.6 and 3.6.4 as well as previous versions are affected.

Race Condition

A flaw was found in the Ansible Engine affecting Ansible Engine versions 2.7.x before 2.7.17 and 2.8.x before 2.8.11 and 2.9.x before 2.9.7 as well as Ansible Tower before and including versions 3.4.5 and 3.5.5 and 3.6.3 when the ldap_attr and ldap_entry community modules are used

CVE-2020-1746 5 - Medium - May 12, 2020

A flaw was found in the Ansible Engine affecting Ansible Engine versions 2.7.x before 2.7.17 and 2.8.x before 2.8.11 and 2.9.x before 2.9.7 as well as Ansible Tower before and including versions 3.4.5 and 3.5.5 and 3.6.3 when the ldap_attr and ldap_entry community modules are used. The issue discloses the LDAP bind password to stdout or a log file if a playbook task is written using the bind_pw in the parameters field. The highest threat from this vulnerability is data confidentiality.

Information Disclosure

A flaw was found in Ansible Engine affecting Ansible Engine versions 2.7.x before 2.7.17 and 2.8.x before 2.8.11 and 2.9.x before 2.9.7 as well as Ansible Tower before and including versions 3.4.5 and 3.5.5 and 3.6.3 when using modules

CVE-2020-10685 5.5 - Medium - May 11, 2020

A flaw was found in Ansible Engine affecting Ansible Engine versions 2.7.x before 2.7.17 and 2.8.x before 2.8.11 and 2.9.x before 2.9.7 as well as Ansible Tower before and including versions 3.4.5 and 3.5.5 and 3.6.3 when using modules which decrypts vault files such as assemble, script, unarchive, win_copy, aws_s3 or copy modules. The temporary directory is created in /tmp leaves the s ts unencrypted. On Operating Systems which /tmp is not a tmpfs but part of the root partition, the directory is only cleared on boot and the decryp emains when the host is switched off. The system will be vulnerable when the system is not running. So decrypted data must be cleared as soon as possible and the data which normally is encrypted ble.

Insufficient Cleanup

An archive traversal flaw was found in all ansible-engine versions 2.9.x prior to 2.9.7, when running ansible-galaxy collection install

CVE-2020-10691 5.2 - Medium - April 30, 2020

An archive traversal flaw was found in all ansible-engine versions 2.9.x prior to 2.9.7, when running ansible-galaxy collection install. When extracting a collection .tar.gz file, the directory is created without sanitizing the filename. An attacker could take advantage to overwrite any file within the system.

Directory traversal

A vulnerability was found in Ansible Engine versions 2.9.x before 2.9.3, 2.8.x before 2.8.8, 2.7.x before 2.7.16 and earlier, where in Ansible's nxos_file_copy module

CVE-2019-14905 5.6 - Medium - March 31, 2020

A vulnerability was found in Ansible Engine versions 2.9.x before 2.9.3, 2.8.x before 2.8.8, 2.7.x before 2.7.16 and earlier, where in Ansible's nxos_file_copy module can be used to copy files to a flash or bootflash on NXOS devices. Malicious code could craft the filename parameter to perform OS command injections. This could result in a loss of confidentiality of the system among other issues.

Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere

A flaw was found in Ansible Engine

CVE-2020-10684 7.1 - High - March 24, 2020

A flaw was found in Ansible Engine, all versions 2.7.x, 2.8.x and 2.9.x prior to 2.7.17, 2.8.9 and 2.9.6 respectively, when using ansible_facts as a subkey of itself and promoting it to a variable when inject is enabled, overwriting the ansible_facts after the clean. An attacker could take advantage of this by altering the ansible_facts, such as ansible_hosts, users and any other key data which would lead into privilege escalation or code injection.

AuthZ

A flaw was found in Ansible Engine when using Ansible Vault for editing encrypted files

CVE-2020-1740 4.7 - Medium - March 16, 2020

A flaw was found in Ansible Engine when using Ansible Vault for editing encrypted files. When a user executes "ansible-vault edit", another user on the same computer can read the old and new secret, as it is created in a temporary file with mkstemp and the returned file descriptor is closed and the method write_data is called to write the existing secret in the file. This method will delete the file before recreating it insecurely. All versions in 2.7.x, 2.8.x and 2.9.x branches are believed to be vulnerable.

Insecure Temporary File

A flaw was found in Ansible Engine when the module package or service is used and the parameter 'use' is not specified

CVE-2020-1738 3.9 - Low - March 16, 2020

A flaw was found in Ansible Engine when the module package or service is used and the parameter 'use' is not specified. If a previous task is executed with a malicious user, the module sent can be selected by the attacker using the ansible facts file. All versions in 2.7.x, 2.8.x and 2.9.x branches are believed to be vulnerable.

Argument Injection

A flaw was found in Ansible Engine when a file is moved using atomic_move primitive as the file mode cannot be specified

CVE-2020-1736 3.3 - Low - March 16, 2020

A flaw was found in Ansible Engine when a file is moved using atomic_move primitive as the file mode cannot be specified. This sets the destination files world-readable if the destination file does not exist and if the file exists, the file could be changed to have less restrictive permissions before the move. This could lead to the disclosure of sensitive data. All versions in 2.7.x, 2.8.x and 2.9.x branches are believed to be vulnerable.

Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

A flaw was found in the Ansible Engine when the fetch module is used

CVE-2020-1735 4.6 - Medium - March 16, 2020

A flaw was found in the Ansible Engine when the fetch module is used. An attacker could intercept the module, inject a new path, and then choose a new destination path on the controller node. All versions in 2.7.x, 2.8.x and 2.9.x branches are believed to be vulnerable.

Directory traversal

A security flaw was found in Ansible Engine

CVE-2020-1753 5.5 - Medium - March 16, 2020

A security flaw was found in Ansible Engine, all Ansible 2.7.x versions prior to 2.7.17, all Ansible 2.8.x versions prior to 2.8.11 and all Ansible 2.9.x versions prior to 2.9.7, when managing kubernetes using the k8s module. Sensitive parameters such as passwords and tokens are passed to kubectl from the command line, not using an environment variable or an input configuration file. This will disclose passwords and tokens from process list and no_log directive from debug module would not have any effect making these secrets being disclosed on stdout and log files.

Information Disclosure

A flaw was found in Ansible 2.7.16 and prior

CVE-2020-1739 3.9 - Low - March 12, 2020

A flaw was found in Ansible 2.7.16 and prior, 2.8.8 and prior, and 2.9.5 and prior when a password is set with the argument "password" of svn module, it is used on svn command line, disclosing to other users within the same node. An attacker could take advantage by reading the cmdline file from that particular PID on the procfs.

Information Disclosure

A race condition flaw was found in Ansible Engine 2.7.17 and prior

CVE-2020-1733 5 - Medium - March 11, 2020

A race condition flaw was found in Ansible Engine 2.7.17 and prior, 2.8.9 and prior, 2.9.6 and prior when running a playbook with an unprivileged become user. When Ansible needs to run a module with become user, the temporary directory is created in /var/tmp. This directory is created with "umask 77 && mkdir -p <dir>"; this operation does not fail if the directory already exists and is owned by another user. An attacker could take advantage to gain control of the become user as the target directory can be retrieved by iterating '/proc/<pid>/cmdline'.

Race Condition

A flaw was found in Ansible 2.7.17 and prior, 2.8.9 and prior, and 2.9.6 and prior when using the Extract-Zip function

CVE-2020-1737 7.8 - High - March 09, 2020

A flaw was found in Ansible 2.7.17 and prior, 2.8.9 and prior, and 2.9.6 and prior when using the Extract-Zip function from the win_unzip module as the extracted file(s) are not checked if they belong to the destination folder. An attacker could take advantage of this flaw by crafting an archive anywhere in the file system, using a path traversal. This issue is fixed in 2.10.

Directory traversal

A flaw was found in the pipe lookup plugin of ansible

CVE-2020-1734 7.4 - High - March 03, 2020

A flaw was found in the pipe lookup plugin of ansible. Arbitrary commands can be run, when the pipe lookup plugin uses subprocess.Popen() with shell=True, by overwriting ansible facts and the variable is not escaped by quote plugin. An attacker could take advantage and run arbitrary commands by overwriting the ansible facts.

Shell injection

Ansible, versions 2.9.x before 2.9.1, 2.8.x before 2.8.7 and Ansible versions 2.7.x before 2.7.15, is not respecting the flag no_log set it to True when Sumologic and Splunk callback plugins are used send tasks results events to collectors

CVE-2019-14864 6.5 - Medium - January 02, 2020

Ansible, versions 2.9.x before 2.9.1, 2.8.x before 2.8.7 and Ansible versions 2.7.x before 2.7.15, is not respecting the flag no_log set it to True when Sumologic and Splunk callback plugins are used send tasks results events to collectors. This would discloses and collects any sensitive data.

Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

A flaw was found in Ansible Tower

CVE-2019-19342 5.3 - Medium - December 19, 2019

A flaw was found in Ansible Tower, versions 3.6.x before 3.6.2 and 3.5.x before 3.5.4, when /websocket is requested and the password contains the '#' character. This request would cause a socket error in RabbitMQ when parsing the password and an HTTP error code 500 and partial password disclose will occur in plaintext. An attacker could easily guess some predictable passwords or brute force the password.

Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information

A flaw was found in Ansible Tower

CVE-2019-19340 8.2 - High - December 19, 2019

A flaw was found in Ansible Tower, versions 3.6.x before 3.6.2 and 3.5.x before 3.5.3, where enabling RabbitMQ manager by setting it with '-e rabbitmq_enable_manager=true' exposes the RabbitMQ management interface publicly, as expected. If the default admin user is still active, an attacker could guess the password and gain access to the system.

Insecure Default Initialization of Resource

A flaw was found in Ansible Tower, versions 3.6.x before 3.6.2, where files in '/var/backup/tower' are left world-readable

CVE-2019-19341 5.5 - Medium - December 19, 2019

A flaw was found in Ansible Tower, versions 3.6.x before 3.6.2, where files in '/var/backup/tower' are left world-readable. These files include both the SECRET_KEY and the database backup. Any user with access to the Tower server, and knowledge of when a backup is run, could retrieve every credential stored in Tower. Access to data is the highest threat with this vulnerability.

Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

A vulnerability was found in Ansible Tower before 3.6.1 where an attacker with low privilege could retrieve usernames and passwords credentials

CVE-2019-14890 8.4 - High - November 26, 2019

A vulnerability was found in Ansible Tower before 3.6.1 where an attacker with low privilege could retrieve usernames and passwords credentials from the new RHSM saved in plain text into the database at '/api/v2/config' when applying the Ansible Tower license.

Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information

A flaw was found in all versions of ghostscript 9.x before 9.50

CVE-2019-14869 8.8 - High - November 15, 2019

A flaw was found in all versions of ghostscript 9.x before 9.50, where the `.charkeys` procedure, where it did not properly secure its privileged calls, enabling scripts to bypass `-dSAFER` restrictions. An attacker could abuse this flaw by creating a specially crafted PostScript file that could escalate privileges within the Ghostscript and access files outside of restricted areas or execute commands.

Improper Privilege Management

A vulnerability was found in Ansible engine 2.x up to 2.8 and Ansible tower 3.x up to 3.5

CVE-2019-14858 5.5 - Medium - October 14, 2019

A vulnerability was found in Ansible engine 2.x up to 2.8 and Ansible tower 3.x up to 3.5. When a module has an argument_spec with sub parameters marked as no_log, passing an invalid parameter name to the module will cause the task to fail before the no_log options in the sub parameters are processed. As a result, data in the sub parameter fields will not be masked and will be displayed if Ansible is run with increased verbosity and present in the module invocation arguments for the task.

Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

When running Tower before 3.4.3 on OpenShift or Kubernetes, application credentials are exposed to playbook job runs

CVE-2019-3869 7.2 - High - March 28, 2019

When running Tower before 3.4.3 on OpenShift or Kubernetes, application credentials are exposed to playbook job runs via environment variables. A malicious user with the ability to write playbooks could use this to gain administrative privileges.

Information Disclosure

It was found that the superexec operator was available in the internal dictionary in ghostscript before 9.27

CVE-2019-3835 5.5 - Medium - March 25, 2019

It was found that the superexec operator was available in the internal dictionary in ghostscript before 9.27. A specially crafted PostScript file could use this flaw in order to, for example, have access to the file system outside of the constrains imposed by -dSAFER.

Authorization

It was found that the forceput operator could be extracted from the DefineResource method in ghostscript before 9.27

CVE-2019-3838 5.5 - Medium - March 25, 2019

It was found that the forceput operator could be extracted from the DefineResource method in ghostscript before 9.27. A specially crafted PostScript file could use this flaw in order to, for example, have access to the file system outside of the constrains imposed by -dSAFER.

Authorization

Ansible Tower before version 3.3.3 does not set a secure channel as it is using the default insecure configuration channel settings for messaging celery workers

CVE-2018-16879 9.8 - Critical - January 03, 2019

Ansible Tower before version 3.3.3 does not set a secure channel as it is using the default insecure configuration channel settings for messaging celery workers from RabbitMQ. This could lead in data leak of sensitive information such as passwords as well as denial of service attacks by deleting projects or inventory files.

Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data

Ansible "User" module leaks any data which is passed on as a parameter to ssh-keygen

CVE-2018-16837 7.8 - High - October 23, 2018

Ansible "User" module leaks any data which is passed on as a parameter to ssh-keygen. This could lean in undesirable situations such as passphrases credentials passed as a parameter for the ssh-keygen executable. Showing those credentials in clear text form for every user which have access just to the process list.

Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data

Paramiko version 2.4.1, 2.3.2, 2.2.3, 2.1.5, 2.0.8, 1.18.5, 1.17.6 contains a Incorrect Access Control vulnerability in SSH server

CVE-2018-1000805 8.8 - High - October 08, 2018

Paramiko version 2.4.1, 2.3.2, 2.2.3, 2.1.5, 2.0.8, 1.18.5, 1.17.6 contains a Incorrect Access Control vulnerability in SSH server that can result in RCE. This attack appear to be exploitable via network connectivity.

AuthZ

Git before 2.14.5, 2.15.x before 2.15.3, 2.16.x before 2.16.5, 2.17.x before 2.17.2, 2.18.x before 2.18.1, and 2.19.x before 2.19.1

CVE-2018-17456 9.8 - Critical - October 06, 2018

Git before 2.14.5, 2.15.x before 2.15.3, 2.16.x before 2.16.5, 2.17.x before 2.17.2, 2.18.x before 2.18.1, and 2.19.x before 2.19.1 allows remote code execution during processing of a recursive "git clone" of a superproject if a .gitmodules file has a URL field beginning with a '-' character.

Argument Injection

Ansible Tower before versions 3.1.8 and 3.2.6 is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery (CSRF) in awx/api/authentication.py

CVE-2018-10884 8.8 - High - August 22, 2018

Ansible Tower before versions 3.1.8 and 3.2.6 is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery (CSRF) in awx/api/authentication.py. An attacker could exploit this by tricking already authenticated users into visiting a malicious site and hijacking the authtoken cookie.

Session Riding

A cache-based side channel in GnuTLS implementation that leads to plain text recovery in cross-VM attack setting was found

CVE-2018-10846 5.6 - Medium - August 22, 2018

A cache-based side channel in GnuTLS implementation that leads to plain text recovery in cross-VM attack setting was found. An attacker could use a combination of "Just in Time" Prime+probe attack in combination with Lucky-13 attack to recover plain text using crafted packets.

Covert Timing Channel

It was found that the GnuTLS implementation of HMAC-SHA-256 was vulnerable to a Lucky thirteen style attack

CVE-2018-10844 5.9 - Medium - August 22, 2018

It was found that the GnuTLS implementation of HMAC-SHA-256 was vulnerable to a Lucky thirteen style attack. Remote attackers could use this flaw to conduct distinguishing attacks and plaintext-recovery attacks via statistical analysis of timing data using crafted packets.

Covert Timing Channel

An issue was discovered in mspack/chmd.c in libmspack before 0.7alpha

CVE-2018-14682 8.8 - High - July 28, 2018

An issue was discovered in mspack/chmd.c in libmspack before 0.7alpha. There is an off-by-one error in the TOLOWER() macro for CHM decompression.

off-by-five

An issue was discovered in kwajd_read_headers in mspack/kwajd.c in libmspack before 0.7alpha

CVE-2018-14681 8.8 - High - July 28, 2018

An issue was discovered in kwajd_read_headers in mspack/kwajd.c in libmspack before 0.7alpha. Bad KWAJ file header extensions could cause a one or two byte overwrite.

Memory Corruption

An issue was discovered in mspack/chmd.c in libmspack before 0.7alpha

CVE-2018-14680 6.5 - Medium - July 28, 2018

An issue was discovered in mspack/chmd.c in libmspack before 0.7alpha. It does not reject blank CHM filenames.

Improper Input Validation

An issue was discovered in mspack/chmd.c in libmspack before 0.7alpha

CVE-2018-14679 6.5 - Medium - July 28, 2018

An issue was discovered in mspack/chmd.c in libmspack before 0.7alpha. There is an off-by-one error in the CHM PMGI/PMGL chunk number validity checks, which could lead to denial of service (uninitialized data dereference and application crash).

off-by-five

Poppler through 0.62 contains an out of bounds read vulnerability due to an incorrect memory access

CVE-2018-13988 6.5 - Medium - July 25, 2018

Poppler through 0.62 contains an out of bounds read vulnerability due to an incorrect memory access that is not mapped in its memory space, as demonstrated by pdfunite. This can result in memory corruption and denial of service. This may be exploitable when a victim opens a specially crafted PDF file.

Out-of-bounds Read

The get_cookies function in soup-cookie-jar.c in libsoup 2.63.2

CVE-2018-12910 9.8 - Critical - July 05, 2018

The get_cookies function in soup-cookie-jar.c in libsoup 2.63.2 allows attackers to have unspecified impact via an empty hostname.

Out-of-bounds Read

python before versions 2.7.15

CVE-2018-1061 7.5 - High - June 19, 2018

python before versions 2.7.15, 3.4.9, 3.5.6rc1, 3.6.5rc1 and 3.7.0 is vulnerable to catastrophic backtracking in the difflib.IS_LINE_JUNK method. An attacker could use this flaw to cause denial of service.

python before versions 2.7.15, 3.4.9, 3.5.6rc1, 3.6.5rc1 and 3.7.0 is vulnerable to catastrophic backtracking in pop3lib's apop() method

CVE-2018-1060 7.5 - High - June 18, 2018

python before versions 2.7.15, 3.4.9, 3.5.6rc1, 3.6.5rc1 and 3.7.0 is vulnerable to catastrophic backtracking in pop3lib's apop() method. An attacker could use this flaw to cause denial of service.

Libgcrypt before 1.7.10 and 1.8.x before 1.8.3 allows a memory-cache side-channel attack on ECDSA signatures

CVE-2018-0495 4.7 - Medium - June 13, 2018

Libgcrypt before 1.7.10 and 1.8.x before 1.8.3 allows a memory-cache side-channel attack on ECDSA signatures that can be mitigated through the use of blinding during the signing process in the _gcry_ecc_ecdsa_sign function in cipher/ecc-ecdsa.c, aka the Return Of the Hidden Number Problem or ROHNP. To discover an ECDSA key, the attacker needs access to either the local machine or a different virtual machine on the same physical host.

Side Channel Attack

The FoFiType1C::cvtGlyph function in fofi/FoFiType1C.cc in Poppler through 0.64.0

CVE-2017-18267 5.5 - Medium - May 10, 2018

The FoFiType1C::cvtGlyph function in fofi/FoFiType1C.cc in Poppler through 0.64.0 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (infinite recursion) via a crafted PDF file, as demonstrated by pdftops.

Infinite Loop

There is a stack-based buffer over-read in calling GLib in the function gxps_images_guess_content_type of gxps-images.c in libgxps through 0.3.0

CVE-2018-10767 6.5 - Medium - May 06, 2018

There is a stack-based buffer over-read in calling GLib in the function gxps_images_guess_content_type of gxps-images.c in libgxps through 0.3.0 because it does not reject negative return values from a g_input_stream_read call. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

Out-of-bounds Read

There is a NULL pointer dereference in the AnnotPath::getCoordsLength function in Annot.h in an Ubuntu package for Poppler 0.24.5

CVE-2018-10768 6.5 - Medium - May 06, 2018

There is a NULL pointer dereference in the AnnotPath::getCoordsLength function in Annot.h in an Ubuntu package for Poppler 0.24.5. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service attack. Later Ubuntu packages such as for Poppler 0.41.0 are not affected.

NULL Pointer Dereference

There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the function ft_font_face_hash of gxps-fonts.c in libgxps through 0.3.0

CVE-2018-10733 6.5 - Medium - May 04, 2018

There is a heap-based buffer over-read in the function ft_font_face_hash of gxps-fonts.c in libgxps through 0.3.0. A crafted input will lead to a remote denial of service attack.

Out-of-bounds Read

Ansible Tower through version 3.2.3 has a vulnerability

CVE-2018-1104 8.8 - High - May 02, 2018

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.

Code Injection

Ansible Tower before version 3.2.4 has a flaw in the management of system and organization administrators

CVE-2018-1101 7.2 - High - May 02, 2018

Ansible Tower before version 3.2.4 has a flaw in the management of system and organization administrators that allows for privilege escalation. System administrators that are members of organizations can have their passwords reset by organization administrators, allowing organization administrators access to the entire system.

Weak Password Requirements

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