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CVE-2020-10744

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v3.1)
• 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: 2020-05-15 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-377

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 products

• Red Hat Ansible: from 2.7.0 through 2.7.18; from 2.8.0 through 2.8.12; from 2.9.0 through 2.9.9
• Tower: from 3.4.0 through 3.4.5; from 3.5.0 through 3.5.6; from 3.6.0 through 3.6.4

References

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

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