Description
Ansible Tower (aka Ansible UI) before 2.0.5 allows remote organization administrators to gain privileges by creating a superuser account.
Public exploits
Exploit or proof-of-concept code for this vulnerability is publicly available, which lowers the bar for attackers. Treat it as a reason to patch sooner.
Third-party code, not reviewed by us. Public PoCs are sometimes fake or contain malware. Read the code first and run it only in an isolated lab, against systems you are authorised to test.
Exploit-DB 1
- Ansible Tower 2.0.2 - Multiple Vulnerabilities EDB-35786 · webapps · Jan 14, 2015
Sources: PoC-in-GitHub, Metasploit Framework, Exploit-DB — updated daily. Only links are listed; no exploit code is hosted here.
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129944/Ansible-Tower-2.0.2-XSS-Privilege-Escalation-Authentication-Missing.html
- 20150113 SEC Consult SA-20150113-1 :: Privilege Escalation & XSS & Missing Authentication in Ansible Tower mailing-list
- 20150113 SEC Consult SA-20150113-1 :: Privilege Escalation & XSS & Missing Authentication in Ansible Tower mailing-list
- https://www.sec-consult.com/fxdata/seccons/prod/temedia/advisories_txt/20150113-1_Ansible-Tower_multiple-vulnerabilities_v10.txt
- 35786 exploit