CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-3701
6.6 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2022-08-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.6 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-276
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.
Affected configurations
• redhat ansible runner 2.0.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-276 Incorrect Default Permissions weakness
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3701 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1977959 Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible-runner/issues/738 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible-runner/pull/742/commits Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3701 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1977959 Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible-runner/issues/738 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible-runner/pull/742/commits Patch, Third Party Advisory