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CVE-2021-3533: PYSEC-2021-126 - A flaw was found in Ansible if an ansible user sets ANSIBLE_ASYNC_DIR to a subdirectory of a world writable directory. When this occurs, the

CVE-2021-3533 · Severity: info · Published 2021-06-09

Technologies: ansible (PyPI). Vendors: PyPI.

Executive brief

A flaw was found in Ansible if an ansible user sets ANSIBLE_ASYNC_DIR to a subdirectory of a world writable directory. When this occurs, there is a race condition on the managed machine. A malicious, non-privileged account on the remote machine can exploit the race condition to access the async result data. This flaw affects Ansible Tower 3.7 and Ansible Automation Platform 1.2.

Affected products

  • PyPI ansible

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