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CVE-2021-3702: PYSEC-2022-43068 - A race condition flaw was found in ansible-runner, where an attacker could watch for rapid creation and deletion of a temporary directory, s

CVE-2021-3702 · Severity: low · CVSS 3.1 · Published 2022-08-23

Technologies: ansible-runner (PyPI). Vendors: PyPI.

Executive brief

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.

Affected products

  • PyPI ansible-runner

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