SB2020051522 - Race condition in Ansible Engine and Ansible Tower
Published: May 15, 2020 Updated: July 7, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2020051522
CSH Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Local access
Highest impact
Code execution
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 vulnerability.
1) Race condition (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-10744)
CWE-ID: CWE-362 - Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')
CVSSv4: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.
The vulnerability exists due to incomplete fix for race condition for SB2020032420 #8 (CVE-2020-1733) on systems using ACLs and FUSE filesystems. A local user can exploit the race and escalate privileges on the system.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.