What is CVE-2018-10884?

CVE-2018-10884 is a high-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Ansible-Tower, classified under Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2018-08-22.

How severe is CVE-2018-10884?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.

CSRF in Red Hat Ansible-Tower

CVE-2018-10884

Ansible Tower before versions 3.1.8 and 3.2.6 is vulnerable to cross-site request forgery (CSRF) in awx/api/authentication.py. An attacker could exploit this by tricking already authenticated users into visiting a malicious site and hijacking the authtoken cookie.

Vulnerability class: CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery)

Published 2018-08-22 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 8.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.009 (58.6th percentile), scored 2026-11-01.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 59th percentile — 58.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.009 · newest: 0.009 · change: -0.000

Affected products

Red Hat Ansible-Tower — versions 3.1.8, 3.2.6
Red Hat Ansible Tower

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-352 — Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/105136 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-10884?: CVE-2018-10884 is a high-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Ansible-Tower, classified under Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF). CVSS score: 8.8/10. Published 2018-08-22.
How severe is CVE-2018-10884?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 8.8 out of 10.