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
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3701Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1977959Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/ansible/ansible-runner/issues/738Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/ansible/ansible-runner/pull/742/commitsPatch, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
n/aansible-runner
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