Arbitrary File Overwrite Affecting ansible package, versions [1.2,1.2.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (6th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-ANSIBLE-40223
  • published23 Feb 2016
  • disclosed16 Sept 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 16 Sep 2013

CVE-2013-4260  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-264  (opens in a new tab)

Overview

ansible is a Radically simple IT automation 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/.

CVSS Scores

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