CVE-2021-3702
A race condition flaw was found in ansible-runner, where an attacker could watch for rapid creation and deletion of a temporary directory, substitute their directory at that name, and then have access to ansible-runner's private_data_dir the next time…
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.20%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
A race condition flaw was found in ansible-runner, where an attacker could watch for rapid creation and deletion of a temporary directory, substitute their directory at that name, and then have access to ansible-runner's private_data_dir the next time ansible-runner made use of the private_data_dir. The highest Threat out of this flaw is to integrity and confidentiality.
- CVSS 3.1
- 6.3 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- EPSS
- 0.20% probability · 10th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-362
- Affected
- redhat/ansible runner
- Source
- secalert@redhat.com
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3702Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1977965Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible-runner/pull/742/commitsPatch, Third Party Advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3702Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1977965Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible-runner/pull/742/commitsPatch, Third Party Advisory
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.