Fluid Attacks Database

Description

Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere and Insecure Temporary File in Ansible An incomplete fix was found for the fix of the flaw CVE-2020-1733 ansible insecure temporary directory when running become_user from become directive. The provided fix is insufficient to prevent the race condition on systems using ACLs and FUSE filesystems. Ansible Engine 2.7.18, 2.8.12, and 2.9.9 as well as previous versions are affected and Ansible Tower 3.4.5, 3.5.6 and 3.6.4 as well as previous versions are affected.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

Ecosystem	Package	Affected version	Patched versions
debian 14	ansible	>=0 <2.9.13+dfsg-1	2.9.13+dfsg-1
debian 12	ansible	>=0 <2.9.13+dfsg-1	2.9.13+dfsg-1
pypi	ansible	>=2.10.0a1 <2.10.0rc1 \|\| >=0 <2.9.12	2.10.0rc1, 2.9.12
debian 11	ansible	>=0 <2.9.13+dfsg-1	2.9.13+dfsg-1
debian 13	ansible	>=0 <2.9.13+dfsg-1	2.9.13+dfsg-1

Aliases

1. CVE-2020-107442. NVD-2020-107443. OSV-DEBIAN-2020-107444. OSV-2020-107445. GHSA-vp9j-rghq-8jhh6. GCVE-2020-107447. SECURITY-TRACKER-CVE-2020-10744

References

1. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/697822. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/77d0effcc5b2da1ef23e4ba32986a9759c27c10d3. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/84afa8e90cd168ff13208c8eae3e533ce7e21e1f4. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/ffd3757fc35468a97791e452e7f2d14c3e3fcb805. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-107446. https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/ansible/PYSEC-2020-208.yaml

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