CVE-2020-14327 Server-side request forgery in Tower

Medium 5.5 Published Updated

Attackers can exploit Ansible Tower's credential lookup feature to forge server-side requests, accessing internal services and exposing sensitive data.

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-2020-14327?

CVE-2020-14327 is a medium-severity server-side request forgery vulnerability in Redhat Ansible Tower, published on 27 May 2021. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A Server-side request forgery (SSRF) flaw was found in Ansible Tower in versions before 3.6.5 and before 3.7.2. Functionality on the Tower server is abused by supplying a URL that could lead to the server processing it. This flaw leads to the connection to internal services or the exposure of additional internal services by abusing the test feature of lookup credentials to forge HTTP/HTTPS requests from the server and retrieving the results of the response.

Weakness: CWE-918

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-14327?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Redhat Ansible Tower.

How do I fix CVE-2020-14327?

No fix has been published for CVE-2020-14327 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and send outbound requests through an allow-list that blocks internal addresses. More about Server-side request forgery.

Is CVE-2020-14327 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-14327 in the wild and no public exploit code.

All Redhat Ansible Tower vulnerabilities

Sources

Also known as GHSA-hgxg-vrf8-v76v.

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