🛡️ CVE-2024-6840
🟡 CVSS 6.6 — Medium ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-285 NVD
6.6
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

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.

Details

Severity MEDIUM
CVSS Score 6.6
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-285
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-09-12
Updated 2026-06-02
Modified 2026-04-15
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
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