fkie_cve-2024-6840
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2024-09-12 17:15
Modified
2024-09-12 18:14
Severity ?
6.6 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
Summary
An improper authorization flaw exists in the Ansible Automation Controller. This flaw allows an attacker using the k8S API server to send an HTTP request with a service account token mounted via `automountServiceAccountToken: true`, resulting in privilege escalation to a service account.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6428
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-6840
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2298492
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  "lastModified": "2024-09-12T18:14:03.913",
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