CVE-2015-1481

Tower vulnerability

CVSS

6.5

EPSS

6.1%

EPSS pct

93th

Exploited

No known

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

Affected vendor

Ansible

Affected product

Tower

CVSS vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weakness type (CWE)

CWE-264 — Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

Published

2015-02-04

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring single-factor authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to confidentiality, partial impact to integrity, partial impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 6.1% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 93% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2015-1481

Confirm whether Ansible Tower is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2015-1481.
Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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