CVE-2020-1733
MEDIUMAnsible Engine <2.7.17, <2.8.9, <2.9.6 - Privilege Escalation
Title source: llmDescription
A race condition flaw was found in Ansible Engine 2.7.17 and prior, 2.8.9 and prior, 2.9.6 and prior when running a playbook with an unprivileged become user. When Ansible needs to run a module with become user, the temporary directory is created in /var/tmp. This directory is created with "umask 77 && mkdir -p <dir>"; this operation does not fail if the directory already exists and is owned by another user. An attacker could take advantage to gain control of the become user as the target directory can be retrieved by iterating '/proc/<pid>/cmdline'.
References (8)
Scores
CVSS v3
5.0
EPSS
0.0003
EPSS Percentile
7.4%
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 (10)
debian/debian_linux
8.0
debian/debian_linux
10.0
fedoraproject/fedora
30
fedoraproject/fedora
31
fedoraproject/fedora
32
pypi/ansible
0 - 2.7.17PyPI
redhat/ansible
< 2.7.16
redhat/ansible_tower
< 3.3.4
redhat/cloudforms_management_engine
5.0
redhat/openstack
13
Published
Mar 11, 2020
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026