CVE-2024-6840 Information

Description

An improper authorization flaw exists in the Ansible Automation Controller. This flaw allows an attacker using the k8S API server to send an HTTP request with a service account token mounted via automountServiceAccountToken: true resulting in privilege escalation to a service account.

Reference

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6428 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-6840 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2298492