Race condition in Ansible Engine and Ansible Tower
| Risk | Low |
| Patch available | YES |
| Number of vulnerabilities | 1 |
| CVE-ID | CVE-2020-10744 |
| CWE-ID | CWE-362 |
| Exploitation vector | Local |
| Public exploit | N/A |
| Vulnerable software Subscribe |
Ansible Server applications / Remote management servers, RDP, SSH Ansible Tower Web applications / Remote management & hosting panels |
| Vendor | Red Hat Inc. |
Security Bulletin
This security bulletin contains one low risk vulnerability.
1) Race condition
EUVDB-ID: #VU29567
Risk: Low
CVSSv3.1: 6.1 [CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]
CVE-ID: CVE-2020-10744
Exploit availability: No
DescriptionThe 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.
MitigationInstall updates from vendor's website.
Vulnerable software versionsAnsible: 2.7.0 - 2.9.9
Ansible Tower: 3.0 - 3.6.4
External linkshttp://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10744
Q & A
Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?
No. This vulnerability can be exploited locally. The attacker should have authentication credentials and successfully authenticate on the system.
How the attacker can exploit this vulnerability?
The attacker would have to send a specially crafted request to the affected application in order to exploit this vulnerability.
The attacker would have to login to the system and perform certain actions in order to exploit this vulnerability.
Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?
No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.
