CVE-2020-10744

MEDIUM

Ansible Engine <2.7.18-2.9.9 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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)

Core 1
Core References
Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10744

Scores

CVSS v3 5.0
EPSS 0.0026
EPSS Percentile 16.6%
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