CVE-2022-2568 (GCVE-0-2022-2568)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-08-18 19:28 – Updated: 2024-08-03 00:39
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • Improper Privilege Management
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
n/a Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Affected: 2.2
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