Medium severity · published Aug 18, 2022
CVE-2022-2568
A privilege escalation flaw was found in the Ansible Automation Platform
6.5
CVSS
1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A privilege escalation flaw was found in the Ansible Automation Platform. This flaw allows a remote authenticated user with 'change user' permissions to modify the account settings of the superuser account and also remove the superuser privileges.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.0% · higher than 61% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AA
Ansible Automation Platform · Redhat
2.1; 2.2; 2.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-2568
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-2568
Exploit
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2108653
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