CVE-2020-1733

Advisory

Ansible versions 2.7.17, 2.8.11 and 2.9.7 include a fix for CVE-2020-1733: A race condition flaw was found in Ansible Engine 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'.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1733

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Resources

• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2020-1733
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1733
• https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67791
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/DKPA4KC3OJSUFASUYMG66HKJE7ADNGFW/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/WQVOQD4VAIXXTVQAJKTN7NUGTJFE2PCB/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/MRRYUU5ZBLPBXCYG6CFP35D64NP2UB2S/
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00005.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-11
• https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4950