Vulnerability in Red Hat Ansible Runner
CVE-2021-3702
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.
Vulnerability class: Race Condition
EPSS: 0.002 (8.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 6.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N.
Affected products
- Redhat Ansible_runner — versions 2.0.0
- N/a Ansible-runner — versions Affects ansible-runner 2.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- secalert@redhat.com (Patch, Third Party Advisory, x_refsource_MISC)
- secalert@redhat.com (Patch, x_refsource_MISC, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2021-3702?
- CVE-2021-3702 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Ansible Runner, classified under Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization (Race Condition). CVSS score: 6.3/10. Published 2022-08-23.
- How severe is CVE-2021-3702?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.3 out of 10.