CVE-2021-3701

Advisory

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 package

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

This vulnerability has no description

Resources

• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-wwch-cmqr-hhrm
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3701
• https://github.com/ansible/ansible-runner/issues/738
• https://github.com/ansible/ansible-runner/pull/742
• https://github.com/ansible/ansible-runner/pull/742/commits
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3701
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1977959
• https://github.com/ansible/ansible-runner
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2021-3701