CVE-2024-6840Automation-controller: gain access to the k8s api server via job execution with container group
- 6.6MediumCVSS base score
- 0.43%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 62% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 57 days later
· 57 days later
Published
- 2 years later
· 2 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Deferred | 3.1 | Medium6.6 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.43% · top 62% of all CVEs (13 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.6.
Affected products
automation-controller
- affected 4.5.10-1 – < 4.5.10-1
Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8
- unaffected 0:4.5.10-1.el8ap – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8
- unaffected 0:4.5.10-1.el8ap – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9
- unaffected 0:4.5.10-1.el9ap – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9
- unaffected 0:4.5.10-1.el9ap – < *
References
References3
- RHSA-2024:6428 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-6840 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
- RHBZ#2298492 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2024-48013 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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