ansible/ansible · Security
Ansible Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerability
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-pcqv-c46v-2p4v
- CVE ID
- CVE-2013-4260
- Severity
- medium
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 6.2 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS v3
- 6.2 · CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
- CVSS v4
- 6.9 · CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Description
lib/ansible/playbook/__init__.py in Ansible 1.2.x before 1.2.3, when playbook does not run due to an error, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a retry file with a predictable name in /var/tmp/ansible/.
CWEs
- CWE-281 · Improper Preservation of Permissions
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4260 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=998227 ↗
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/86898 ↗
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ansible-project/UVDYW0HGcNg ↗
- http://www.ansible.com/security ↗
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/ansible-project/UVDYW0HGcNg ↗
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/d5948d59fc863fcec6efa62fa2791928ffc5a6d1 ↗
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/ansible/PYSEC-2013-2.yaml ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pcqv-c46v-2p4v ↗