CVE-2021-3533

Advisory

A flaw was found in Ansible if an Ansible user sets ANSIBLE_ASYNC_DIR to a subdirectory of a world-writable directory. When this occurs, there is a race condition on the managed machine. A malicious, non-privileged account on the remote machine can exploit the race condition to access the async result data. This flaw affects Ansible Tower 3.7 and Ansible Automation Platform 1.2.

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Resources

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1956477
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2021-3533
• https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/61f5c225510ca82ed43582540c9b9570ef676d7f
• https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/74249
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-3533