GHSA-pcqv-c46v-2p4v

Ansible Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerability

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2013-4260

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
PyPI	ansible	>= 1.2, < 1.2.3	1.2.3

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

`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/`.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4260 advisory
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/d5948d59fc863fcec6efa62fa2791928ffc5a6d1 web
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=998227 web
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/86898 web
https://github.com/ansible/ansible package
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/ansible/PYSEC-2013-2.yaml web
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ansible-project/UVDYW0HGcNg web
https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/ansible-project/UVDYW0HGcNg web
http://www.ansible.com/security web