CVE-2018-1101
Ansible Tower before version 3.2.4 has a flaw in the management of system and organization administrators that allows for privilege escalation.
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.94%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
Description
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.
- CVSS 3.0
- 7.2 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.94% probability · 80th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-266, CWE-521
- Affected
- redhat/ansible tower · redhat/cloudforms
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
EPSS 1.9% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1328Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1972Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-1101Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1563492Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.ansible.com/securityVendor Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1328Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1972Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-1101Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1563492Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://www.ansible.com/securityVendor Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.