Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls in Ansible - CVE-2013-4260
Published: September 16, 2013 / Updated: August 10, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU42561
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 5.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2013-4260
CWE-ID: CWE-264
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to manipulate or delete data.
lib/ansible/playbook/__init__.py in Ansible 1.2.x before 1.2.3, when playbook does not run due to an error, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a retry file with a predictable name in /var/tmp/ansible/.
Affected software
Ansible
How to mitigate CVE-2013-4260
Install update from vendor's website.