CVE-2018-16879 Misconfiguration in Tower
Ansible Tower uses insecure default settings for RabbitMQ messaging, allowing attackers to leak sensitive data or cause denial of service.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2018-16879?
CVE-2018-16879 is a high-severity vulnerability in Redhat Ansible Tower, published on 3 Jan 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
Ansible Tower before version 3.3.3 does not set a secure channel as it is using the default insecure configuration channel settings for messaging celery workers from RabbitMQ. This could lead in data leak of sensitive information such as passwords as well as denial of service attacks by deleting projects or inventory files.
Weakness: CWE-311
Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-16879?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Redhat Ansible Tower.
How do I fix CVE-2018-16879?
No fix has been published for CVE-2018-16879 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Is CVE-2018-16879 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-16879 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Redhat Ansible Tower
Sources
Also known as GHSA-xw9p-c763-93fq.