Vulnerability Name:

CVE-2020-10697 (CCN-202725)

Assigned:2020-03-20
Published:2021-04-20
Updated:2022-10-25
Summary:A flaw was found in Ansible Tower when running Openshift. Tower runs a memcached, which is accessed via TCP. An attacker can take advantage of writing a playbook polluting this cache, causing a denial of service attack. This attack would not completely stop the service, but in the worst-case scenario, it can reduce the Tower performance, for which memcached is designed. Theoretically, more sophisticated attacks can be performed by manipulating and crafting the cache, as Tower relies on memcached as a place to pull out setting values. Confidential and sensitive data stored in memcached should not be pulled, as this information is encrypted. This flaw affects Ansible Tower versions before 3.6.4, Ansible Tower versions before 3.5.6 and Ansible Tower versions before 3.4.6.
CVSS v3 Severity:4.4 Medium (CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L)
3.9 Low (Temporal CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L/E:U/RL:O/RC:C)
Exploitability Metrics:Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope:Scope (S): Unchanged
Impact Metrics:Confidentiality (C): Low
Integrity (I): None
Availibility (A): Low
3.4 Low (CCN CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L)
3.0 Low (CCN Temporal CVSS v3.1 Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L/E:U/RL:O/RC:C)
Exploitability Metrics:Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Privileges Required (PR): High
User Interaction (UI): None
Scope:Scope (S): Unchanged
Impact Metrics:Confidentiality (C): Low
Integrity (I): None
Availibility (A): Low
CVSS v2 Severity:3.6 Low (CVSS v2 Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Exploitability Metrics:Access Vector (AV): Local
Access Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Impact Metrics:Confidentiality (C): Partial
Integrity (I): None
Availibility (A): Partial
3.2 Low (CCN CVSS v2 Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:P)
Exploitability Metrics:Access Vector (AV): Local
Access Complexity (AC): Low
Athentication (Au): Single_Instance
Impact Metrics:Confidentiality (C): Partial
Integrity (I): None
Availibility (A): Partial
Vulnerability Type:CWE-Other
Vulnerability Consequences:Denial of Service
References:Source: MITRE
Type: CNA
CVE-2020-10697

Source: CCN
Type: Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1818445
(CVE-2020-10697) - CVE-2020-10697 Tower: memcached deployment is insecure on OpenShift

Source: MISC
Type: Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1818445

Source: XF
Type: UNKNOWN
ansible-cve202010697-dos(202725)

Source: CCN
Type: Ansible Web site
Ansible is Simple IT Automation

Vulnerable Configuration:Configuration 1:
  • cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_tower:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (Version >= 3.5.0 and < 3.5.6)
  • OR cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_tower:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (Version >= 3.6.0 and < 3.6.4)
  • OR cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_tower:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* (Version < 3.4.6)

  • Configuration CCN 1:
  • cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_tower:3.6.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_tower:3.5.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • OR cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_tower:3.4.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

  • * Denotes that component is vulnerable
    BACK
    redhat ansible tower *
    redhat ansible tower *
    redhat ansible tower *
    redhat ansible tower 3.6.3
    redhat ansible tower 3.5.5
    redhat ansible tower 3.4.5