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

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

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.