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medium 6.5

CVE-2015-1481 json

Ansible Tower (aka Ansible UI) before 2.0.5 allows remote organization administrators to gain privileges by creating a superuser account.

published 11y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2015-1616

cvss
6.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
6.1%
EPSS 6.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 93%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

Ansible Tower (aka Ansible UI) before 2.0.5 allows remote organization administrators to gain privileges by creating a superuser account.

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Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-35786)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

6.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 93% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-35786 Ansible Tower 2.0.2 - Multiple Vulnerabilities webapps, 2015-01-14
  • packetstormsecurity.com http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/129944/Ansible-Tower-2.0.2-XSS-Privilege-Escalation-Authentication-Missing.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • seclists.org http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2015/Jan/52 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • sec-consult.com https://www.sec-consult.com/fxdata/seccons/prod/temedia/advisories_txt/20150113-1_Ansible-Tower_multiple-vulnerabilities_v10.txt referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

References

Sources

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