PT-2013-4922 · Red Hat+1 · Ansible+1

Michael Scherer · Published 2013-09-16 · Updated 2023-02-13 · CVE-2013-4260

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v4.0

6.9

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Ansible versions 1.2.0 through 1.2.2

Description The issue allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a retry file with a predictable name in /var/tmp/ansible/. This occurs when the playbook does not run due to an error.

Recommendations For Ansible versions 1.2.0 through 1.2.2, update to version 1.2.3 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Improper Preservation of Permissions

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

CWE-281

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-4260

GHSA-PCQV-C46V-2P4V

PYSEC-2013-2

Affected Products

Ansible

Ansible-Core

References · 14

• http://ansible.com/security · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=998227 · Patch
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/86898 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2013-4260 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-4260 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-4260 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4260 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-pcqv-c46v-2p4v · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2013-2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/ansible/ansible · Note
• https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/d5948d59fc863fcec6efa62fa2791928ffc5a6d1 · Note
• https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/ansible/PYSEC-2013-2.yaml · Note
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ansible-project/UVDYW0HGcNg · Note
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/ansible-project/UVDYW0HGcNg · Note