CVE-2020-10697CWE-862

A flaw was found in Ansible Tower when running Openshift

published May 27, 2021

CVSS
—
EPSS
0%
Percentile
14.1
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00239 · 14.1th percentile
Weakness
CWE-862 · Missing Authorization
Published
2021-05-27T18:45Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 MAY 18:45Z
    A flaw was found in Ansible Tower when running Openshift
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