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CVE-2015-1481

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2015-1481 describes a privilege escalation vulnerability in Ansible Tower (also known as Ansible UI) versions prior to 2.0.5. Remote organization administrators could exploit this flaw to create a superuser account, thereby gaining elevated privileges within the system. With a CVSS score of 6.5 (medium severity), this vulnerability has a network attack vector, low attack complexity, and potential for partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact. While not listed in the KEV catalog and showing no active exploitation, a public exploit (EDB-35786) exists, though community discussion and media coverage are minimal.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
<= 2.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ansible:tower:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.5MEDIUM

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

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
8.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
6.14%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
92.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
ExploitDB: EDB-35786 · Jan 14, 2015
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0614 is in the 98th percentile among its peer group of 21,954 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

packetstormsecurity.com / files/129944/Ansible-Tower-2.0.2-XSS-Privilege-Escalation-Authentication-Missing.html
Exploit
seclists.org / fulldisclosure/2015/Jan/52
Exploit
sec-consult.com / fxdata/seccons/prod/temedia/advisories_txt/20150113-1_Ansible-Tower_multiple-vulnerabilities_v10.txt
Exploit
exploit-db.com / exploits/35786
Exploit
securityfocus.com / archive/1/534464/100/0/threaded