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ansible-runner 2.0.0 vulnerable to Race Condition

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Aug 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Jan 30, 2023

Package

pip ansible-runner (pip)

Affected versions

>= 2.0.0, < 2.1.0

Patched versions

2.1.0

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Aug 23, 2022
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Aug 24, 2022
Reviewed Sep 1, 2022
Last updated Jan 30, 2023

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
High
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

EPSS score

0.047%
(19th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2021-3702

GHSA ID

GHSA-772j-xvf9-qpf5

Source code

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