cvelistv5 - cve-2021-3701

cve-2021-3701

Vulnerability from cvelistv5

Published

2022-08-23 15:50

Modified

2024-08-03 17:01

Severity ?

Summary

A flaw was found in ansible-runner where the default temporary files configuration in ansible-2.0.0 are written to world R/W locations. This flaw allows an attacker to pre-create the directory, resulting in reading private information or forcing ansible-runner to write files as the legitimate user in a place they did not expect. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality and integrity.

References

URL	Tags
secalert@redhat.com	https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3701	Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.com	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1977959	Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.com	https://github.com/ansible/ansible-runner/issues/738	Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.com	https://github.com/ansible/ansible-runner/pull/742/commits	Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3701	Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1977959	Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://github.com/ansible/ansible-runner/issues/738	Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108	https://github.com/ansible/ansible-runner/pull/742/commits	Patch, Third Party Advisory

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

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n/a

ansible-runner

Version: Affects ansible-runner 2.0

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