CVEvulnerability
CVE-2024-6840
6.6 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Deferred
- Published
- 2024-09-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.6 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-285
Description
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.
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-285 Improper Authorization weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6428 access.redhat.com
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-6840 access.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2298492 bugzilla.redhat.com