GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI

GHSA-pcqv-c46v-2p4v Ansible Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerability

MEDIUM Published 2022-05-14 Modified 2024-09-04 Official page ↗
Aliases
CVE-2013-4260
Ecosystem
PyPI
Packages
ansible
Severity
Moderate
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-281
Reviewed
2023-08-28

Affected packages

• PyPI ansible: >= 1.2, < 1.2.3 → fixed in 1.2.3

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/`.

Related

Alias · CVE (1)

  • CVE-2013-4260 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… vulnerability

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-281 Improper Preservation of Permissions weakness

References