CVE-2020-10744

MEDIUM

Ansible Engine <2.7.18-2.9.9 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm

Description

An incomplete fix was found for the fix of the flaw CVE-2020-1733 ansible: insecure temporary directory when running become_user from become directive. The provided fix is insufficient to prevent the race condition on systems using ACLs and FUSE filesystems. Ansible Engine 2.7.18, 2.8.12, and 2.9.9 as well as previous versions are affected and Ansible Tower 3.4.5, 3.5.6 and 3.6.4 as well as previous versions are affected.

References (1)

[Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10744

Scores

CVSS v3 5.0

EPSS 0.0004

EPSS Percentile 11.3%

Attack Vector LOCAL

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

Details

CWE

CWE-362 CWE-377

Status published

Products (3)

pypi/ansible 2.10.0a1 - 2.10.0rc1PyPI

redhat/ansible 2.7.0 - 2.7.18

redhat/ansible_tower 3.4.0 - 3.4.5

Published May 15, 2020

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026