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Medium · 6.2 CVE-2013-4260 EUVD-2013-0002GHSA-pcqv-c46v-2p4vPYSEC-2013-2

Ansible Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerability

Published Sep 16, 2013 · Updated Aug 6, 2024 · Assigned by redhat

Description

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/.

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI ansible >= 1.2, < 1.2.3 1.2.3 GHSA-pcqv-c46v-2p4v
PyPI ansible >= 1.2.0, < 1.2.3 1.2.3 PYSEC-2013-2

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