Race Condition Affecting ansible package, versions [2.9.0b1,2.9.10)[,2.8.13)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (15th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-ANSIBLE-569107
  • published15 May 2020
  • disclosed14 May 2020
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 14 May 2020

CVE-2020-10744  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-377  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade ansible to version 2.9.10, 2.8.13 or higher.

Overview

ansible is a simple IT automation system.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Race Condition. This flaw refers to the incomplete fix for CVE-2020-1733 insecure temporary directory when running become_user from become directive. This vulnerability is not mitigated fully as there are race conditions from the original flaw could still happen on systems using ACLs and FUSE filesystems.

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