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)
Core 8
Core References
Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-1733
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/67791
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/WQVOQD4VAIXXTVQAJKTN7NUGTJFE2PCB/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/DKPA4KC3OJSUFASUYMG66HKJE7ADNGFW/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_fedora
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MRRYUU5ZBLPBXCYG6CFP35D64NP2UB2S/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list
x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/05/msg00005.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_gentoo
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202006-11
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_debian
https://www.debian.org/security/2021/dsa-4950
Scores
CVSS v3
5.0
EPSS
0.0040
EPSS Percentile
31.5%
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