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Arbitrary File Overwrite Affecting ansible package, versions [1.2,1.2.3)

0.0
medium

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    User Interaction Required

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.04% (6th percentile)
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4.4 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-ANSIBLE-40223
  • published 23 Feb 2016
  • disclosed 16 Sep 2013
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 16 Sep 2013

CVE-2013-4260 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-264 Open this link in a new tab

Overview

ansible is a Radically simple IT automation 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/.