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Improper Access Control

CVE-2024-11483

Medium
5/10

Summary

A vulnerability was found in the Ansible Automation Platform (AAP). This flaw allows attackers to escalate privileges by improperly leveraging read-scoped OAuth2 tokens to gain write access. This issue affects API endpoints that rely on "ansible_base.oauth2_provider" for OAuth2 authentication. While the impact is limited to actions within the user's assigned permissions, it undermines scoped access controls, potentially allowing unintended modifications in the application and consuming services. The vulnerability affects versions prior to 2024.12.4.

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  • NETWORK
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  • CHANGED
  • NONE
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CWE-284 - Improper Access Control

Listed 5th in the 'OWASP Top Ten', improper (or broken) access control attacks are a fundamental type of vulnerability. This includes a broad range of design flaws that enable users to act outside of their intended permissions. They can use these privileges to gain access to restricted files and functionality such as accessing restricted information, falsifying records, destroying data, or executing commands.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published