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CVE-2021-4112
A flaw was found in ansible-tower where the default installation is vulnerable to job isolation escape. This flaw allows an attacker to…
High8.8EPSS 0.25%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
A flaw was found in ansible-tower where the default installation is vulnerable to job isolation escape. This flaw allows an attacker to elevate the privilege from a low privileged user to an AWX user from outside the isolated environment.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 8 months later
· 8 months later
Published
- 24 months later
· 24 months later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.25% · top 84% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.
Weakness
Affected products
ansible-tower
- affected Fixed in ansible-tower 3.8.5
References (2)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2028121 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-4112 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
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- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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