CVE-2020-1733

State
Published
Severity
5.0 Medium
Published
Mar 11, 2020
Updated
Aug 4, 2024
Reserved
Nov 27, 2019

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Description

A race condition flaw was found in Ansible Engine 2.7.17 and prior, 2.8.9 and prior, 2.9.6 and prior when running a playbook with an unprivileged become user. When Ansible needs to run a module with become user, the temporary directory is created in /var/tmp. This directory is created with "umask 77 && mkdir -p <dir>"; this operation does not fail if the directory already exists and is owned by another user. An attacker could take advantage to gain control of the become user as the target directory can be retrieved by iterating '/proc/<pid>/cmdline'.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.0 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:Lredhat

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
AnsibleRed Hat
  • 2.7.17 and priorAffected
  • 2.8.9 and priorAffected
  • 2.9.6 and priorAffected

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