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CVE-2020-10744: Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere and Insecure Temporary File in Ansible

February 9, 2022 (updated November 18, 2024)

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.

References

  • bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10744
  • github.com/advisories/GHSA-vp9j-rghq-8jhh
  • github.com/ansible/ansible
  • github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/77d0effcc5b2da1ef23e4ba32986a9759c27c10d
  • github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/84afa8e90cd168ff13208c8eae3e533ce7e21e1f
  • github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/ffd3757fc35468a97791e452e7f2d14c3e3fcb80
  • github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/69782
  • github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/ansible/PYSEC-2020-208.yaml
  • nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-10744

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Affected versions

All versions starting from 2.10.0a1 before 2.10.0rc1, all versions before 2.9.12

Fixed versions

  • 2.10.0rc1
  • 2.9.12

Solution

Upgrade to versions 2.10.0rc1, 2.9.12 or above.

Impact 5 MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

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Weakness

  • CWE-362: Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
  • CWE-377: Insecure Temporary File
  • CWE-668: Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere

Source file

pypi/ansible/CVE-2020-10744.yml

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