CVE-2020-1733

Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1733
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-1733.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-1733
Aliases
Downstream
Related
Published
2020-03-11T19:15:13Z
Modified
2025-09-30T07:52:14.311262Z
Severity
  • 5.0 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

A race condition flaw was found in Ansible Engine 2.7.17 and prior, 2.8.9 and prior, 2.9.6 and prior when running a playbook with an unprivileged become user. When Ansible needs to run a module with become user, the temporary directory is created in /var/tmp. This directory is created with "umask 77 && mkdir -p <dir>"; this operation does not fail if the directory already exists and is owned by another user. An attacker could take advantage to gain control of the become user as the target directory can be retrieved by iterating '/proc/<pid>/cmdline'.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/ansible/ansible

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/ansible/ansible
Events

Affected versions

v2.*

v2.8.0
v2.8.1
v2.8.2
v2.8.3
v2.8.4
v2.8.5
v2.8.6
v2.8.7