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CVE-2021-3702
A race condition flaw was found in ansible-runner, where an attacker could watch for rapid creation and deletion of a temporary directory,…
Medium6.3EPSS 0.20%
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- redhat
Description
A race condition flaw was found in ansible-runner, where an attacker could watch for rapid creation and deletion of a temporary directory, substitute their directory at that name, and then have access to ansible-runner's private_data_dir the next time ansible-runner made use of the private_data_dir. The highest Threat out of this flaw is to integrity and confidentiality.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.20% · top 90% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.3.
Weakness
Affected products
ansible-runner
- affected Affects ansible-runner 2.0
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIansible-runnerGHSA-772j-xvf9-qpf5 (opens in a new tab)
References (3)
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible-runner/pull/742/commits (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1977965 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3702 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-772j-xvf9-qpf5 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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