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    CVE-2020-1733

    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'.

    Published:Feb 18, 2020
    Last Modified:Nov 21, 2024
    EPS:Mar 11, 2020
    EPSS Score:0.00036
    CVSS Score:5

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Debian
    Product
    Debian Linux
    Vendor
    Fedoraproject
    Product
    Fedora
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Ansible
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Ansible Engine
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Ansible Tower
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Cloudforms Management Engine
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Openstack

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    Network
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    Privileges Required
    None
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    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
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    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High