Vigil@nce - Ansible Tower: Cross Site Request Forgery via awx/api/authentication.py
October 2018 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/offer
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can trigger a Cross Site Request Forgery via
awx/api/authentication.py of Ansible Tower, in order to force the
victim to perform operations.
Impacted products: Ansible Tower.
Severity: 2/4.
Creation date: 23/08/2018.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
The Ansible Tower product offers a web service.
However, the origin of queries is not checked. They can for
example originate from an image included in an HTML document.
An attacker can therefore trigger a Cross Site Request Forgery via
awx/api/authentication.py of Ansible Tower, in order to force the
victim to perform operations.
ACCESS TO THE COMPLETE VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN