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

0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High
    User Interaction Required
    Scope Changed

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.04% (12th percentile)
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NVD
5 medium
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Red Hat
5 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-ANSIBLE-569107
  • published 15 May 2020
  • disclosed 14 May 2020
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 14 May 2020

CVE-2020-10744 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-377 Open this link 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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