ansible/ansible-runner · Security
ansible-runner has default temporary files written to world R/W locations
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-wwch-cmqr-hhrm
- CVE ID
- CVE-2021-3701
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 6.6 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 6.6 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CVSS v4
- 6.8 · CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
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.
CWEs
- CWE-276 · Incorrect Default Permissions
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3701 ↗
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible-runner/issues/738 ↗
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible-runner/pull/742/commits ↗
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3701 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1977959 ↗
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible-runner/pull/742 ↗
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/ansible-runner/PYSEC-2022-43067.yaml ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wwch-cmqr-hhrm ↗