Vulnerability · Published May 15, 2020 · Assigned by redhat

CVE-2020-10744

Medium 5.0

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in ansible from Red Hat. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 17% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS 3.1)5.0Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 82.8% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

An incomplete fix was found for the fix of the flaw CVE-2020-1733 ansible: insecure temporary directory when running become_user from become directive. The provided fix is insufficient to prevent the race condition on systems using ACLs and FUSE filesystems. Ansible Engine 2.7.18, 2.8.12, and 2.9.9 as well as previous versions are affected and Ansible Tower 3.4.5, 3.5.6 and 3.6.4 as well as previous versions are affected.

Affected packages & fixed versions

Ecosystem	Package	Fixed in	Advisory
Debian:12	ansible	2.9.13+dfsg-1	DEBIAN-CVE-2020-10744
Debian:13	ansible	2.9.13+dfsg-1	DEBIAN-CVE-2020-10744
Debian:14	ansible	2.9.13+dfsg-1	DEBIAN-CVE-2020-10744
PyPI	ansible	2.10.0rc1	GHSA-vp9j-rghq-8jhh
PyPI	ansible	2.9.12	GHSA-vp9j-rghq-8jhh
PyPI	ansible	2.8.0a1, 2.8.13, 2.9.10	PYSEC-2020-208

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Red Hat	ansible	ansible-engine 2.7.18 and prioransible-engine 2.8.12 and prioransible-engine 2.9.9 and prioransible-tower 3.4.5 and prioransible-tower 3.5.6 and prioransible-tower 3.6.4 and prior

Weakness: CWE-377 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10744 x_refsource_CONFIRM