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CVE-2021-3702

MEDIUM
6.3
CVSS Score
Published: August 23, 2022 at 03:51 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 04:05 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorAnsible Runner

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Severity
MEDIUM6.3
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.2%

Description

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

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

Patch and advisory references

References (3)

x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3702
x_refsource_MISCIssue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1977965
x_refsource_MISCPatchThird Party Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://github.com/ansible/ansible-runner/pull/742/commits

CVSS

6.3MEDIUM[email protected]
Attack Vector
LOCAL
Complexity
HIGH
Privileges
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-362

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