CVE-2013-4260

Severity

32%

Complexity

34%

Confidentiality

81%

lib/ansible/playbook/__init__.py in Ansible 1.2.x before 1.2.3, when playbook does not run due to an error, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a retry file with a predictable name in /var/tmp/ansible/.

lib/ansible/playbook/__init__.py in Ansible 1.2.x before 1.2.3, when playbook does not run due to an error, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a retry file with a predictable name in /var/tmp/ansible/.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 3.3. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 11 years ago

2013-09-16 19:14:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-30 16:28:00

Affected Software

Red Hat Ansible 1.2

1.2

Red Hat Ansible 1.2.1

1.2.1

Red Hat Ansible 1.2.2

1.2.2

References

http://www.ansible.com/security

Vendor Advisory

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=998227

Issue Tracking, Patch

ansible-cve20134260-symlink(86898)

VDB Entry, Vendor Advisory

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ansible-project/UVDYW0HGcNg

Third Party Advisory

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