CVE record · CVE-2024-6840

Automation-controller: gain access to the k8s api server via job execution with container group

CVSS 6.6 MediumEPSS 0.0043 · 37th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 12 Sept 2024, 16:35 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Not given	Not given Package name: automation-controller https://github.com/ansible/ansible	affected 4.5.10-1 to before 4.5.10-1 semver Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8 Package name: automation-controller https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:4.5.10-1.el8ap to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8 Package name: automation-controller https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:4.5.10-1.el8ap to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9 Package name: automation-controller https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:4.5.10-1.el9ap to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9 Package name: automation-controller https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	unaffected 0:4.5.10-1.el9ap to before * rpm Other versions: affected

Identifiers: CVE-2024-6840
CNA: redhat
Weakness (CWE): CWE-285
Tags: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9
Broken access control
Published: 12 Sept 2024
Updated: 5 Nov 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
6.6	Medium	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N	CNA (redhat)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0043, the 37th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

12 Sept 2024, 16:35 UTC Confirmed by the CVE List
12 Sept 2024, 17:15 UTC Confirmed by NVD

Sources

References from the CNA

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:6428 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-6840 vdb-entryredhat
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2298492 issue-trackingredhat

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