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CVE-2013-4260

• Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2013-09-16 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

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 products

• Red Hat Ansible: 1.2, 1.2.1, 1.2.2

References

• http://www.ansible.com/security
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=998227
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/86898
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/ansible-project/UVDYW0HGcNg
• http://www.ansible.com/security
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=998227
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/86898
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/ansible-project/UVDYW0HGcNg

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