Vulnerability CVE-2021-3701


Published: 2022-08-23

Description:
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.

 References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3701
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1977959
https://github.com/ansible/ansible-runner/pull/742/commits
https://github.com/ansible/ansible-runner/issues/738

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