CVE-2021-3702

low-risk
Published 2022-08-23

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.

Do I need to act?

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0.13% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 6.3/10 Medium
LOCAL / HIGH complexity

Affected Products (1)

Ansible Runner

Affected Vendors

Redhat

References (6)

Vendor Advisory https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3702
Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1977965
Patch https://github.com/ansible/ansible-runner/pull/742/commits
Vendor Advisory https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3702
Issue Tracking https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1977965
Patch https://github.com/ansible/ansible-runner/pull/742/commits
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low-risk
Severity 16/34 · Moderate
Exploitability 1/34 · Minimal
Exposure 5/34 · Minimal