Ansible Tower: Mehrere Schwachstellen
WID-SEC-2022-1352 · first 10.03.2021 · updated 08.06.2026 · CVSS 7,1
What it is about
Ansible ist eine Software zur Automatisierung von Cloud Provisionierung, zum Konfigurationsmanagement und zur Anwendungsbereitstellung. Ein lokaler oder entfernter Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Ansible Tower ausnutzen, um Informationen offenzulegen oder seine Privilegien zu erweitern.
Under what conditions?
Over the network.
What can happen in the worst case
An attacker could use the vulnerability to
- Informationen offenzulegen oder seine Privilegien zu erweitern
Am I affected?
Affected according to the BSI:
- Debian Linux
- Amazon Linux 2
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- SUSE Linux
- Open Source Ansible Tower 3.8
- SUSE openSUSE
The installed version is usually shown under “Help → About” or in the device’s admin interface.
What helps?
Install the updates provided by the vendor; details in the sources below.
Is the vulnerability already being exploited?
None of the CVEs is in the CISA catalogue of exploited vulnerabilities. That does not mean there are no attacks, only that none are documented.
Information and sources
- Original BSI advisory (WID)
- Red Hat Security Adivisory: RHSA-2021:0780 vom 2021-03-09 access.redhat.com
- Red Hat Security Adivisory: CVE-2021-20180 vom 2021-03-09 access.redhat.com
- Red Hat Security Adivisory: CVE-2021-20253 vom 2021-03-09 access.redhat.com
- Red Hat Security Adivisory: CVE-2021-3281 vom 2021-03-09 access.redhat.com
- Red Hat Security Adivisory: RHSA-2021:0779 vom 2021-03-09 access.redhat.com
- Red Hat Security Adivisory: RHSA-2021:0778 vom 2021-03-09 access.redhat.com
- Amazon Linux Security Advisory ALAS-2021-1613 vom 2021-03-20 alas.aws.amazon.com
- Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2021:2180 vom 2021-06-01 access.redhat.com
- SUSE Security Update SUSE-SU-2021:2121-1 vom 2021-06-22 lists.suse.com
- Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2021:3490 vom 2021-09-15 access.redhat.com
- Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2021:5070 vom 2021-12-10 access.redhat.com
- SUSE Security Update SUSE-SU-2022:3178-1 vom 2022-09-08 lists.suse.com
- Debian Security Advisory DLA-3164 vom 2022-10-28 lists.debian.org
- Amazon Linux Security Advisory ALASANSIBLE2-2023-004 vom 2023-09-27 alas.aws.amazon.com
- SUSE Security Update SUSE-SU-2024:0196-1 vom 2024-01-23 lists.suse.com
- openSUSE Security Update OPENSUSE-SU-2024:14536-1 vom 2024-12-03 lists.opensuse.org
- openSUSE Security Update OPENSUSE-SU-2025:15753-1 vom 2025-11-22 lists.opensuse.org
- openSUSE Security Update OPENSUSE-SU-2026:10944-1 vom 2026-06-07 lists.opensuse.org
CVE: CVE-2021-20180, CVE-2021-20253, CVE-2021-3281
Source: BSI warning and information service (CERT-Bund); CISA. The assessment of the conditions is my reading of the BSI text; the external pages are in their original language.