Security readout for executives and security teams
Plain-English summary
Ansible Tower before 3.7.2 could expose sensitive label data through its labels API. A user from one organization could retrieve labels from another organization and learn organization names. The known impact is confidentiality loss, especially in shared or multi-tenant Tower deployments.
Executive priority
Treat this as a confidentiality issue for shared Ansible Tower environments. Prioritize patching where multiple internal teams, customers, or business units use the same Tower instance.
Technical view
CVE-2020-14329 is a CWE-200 data exposure issue in Ansible Tower before 3.7.2 involving /api/v2/labels/. The source states users from other organizations can retrieve any label from an organization and disclose organization names. No CVSS score is provided in the bundle.
Likely exposure
Exposure is most relevant to Ansible Tower environments running versions before 3.7.2, particularly where multiple organizations or delegated users share one Tower instance.
Exploitation context
The source bundle does not show CISA KEV listing or cited evidence of active exploitation. It describes access by users from other organizations, but does not provide exploit mechanics or unauthenticated attack evidence.
Researcher notes
Evidence is limited to the CVE description and Red Hat Bugzilla reference in the bundle. No CVSS, exploit status, or detailed remediation text is included. The 3.7.2 boundary is inferred from the stated affected range before 3.7.2.
Mitigation direction
- Inventory Ansible Tower versions across all environments.
- Upgrade affected Tower instances to 3.7.2 or later.
- Review Red Hat guidance for vendor-confirmed fixes or workarounds.
- Limit Tower access to trusted users until remediation is complete.
- Review organization separation assumptions in shared Tower deployments.
Validation and detection
- Confirm whether any Tower instance runs before 3.7.2.
- Check whether /api/v2/labels/ access is available to cross-organization users.
- Review audit logs for unusual labels API access.
- Validate that organization names and labels are not visible across tenants after upgrade.
Public sources used
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- CVSS
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- Known Exploited
- No
- Published
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CVSS and timeline data
No CVSS vectors or timeline events were available in the normalized CVE source material.
Source materials
- CVE List V5 sourceCVE List V5
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1856787CVE reference · x_refsource_MISC
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CWE details
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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor represents a recurring weakness pattern that can create exploitable paths when design, validation, or implementation controls are missing.