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CVE-2021-3701

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.6 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: 2022-08-23 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-276

Description

A flaw was found in ansible-runner where the default temporary files configuration in ansible-2.0.0 are written to world R/W locations. This flaw allows an attacker to pre-create the directory, resulting in reading private information or forcing ansible-runner to write files as the legitimate user in a place they did not expect. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality and integrity.

Affected products

• ansible-runner: 2.0.0

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3701
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1977959
• https://github.com/ansible/ansible-runner/issues/738
• https://github.com/ansible/ansible-runner/pull/742/commits
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3701
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1977959
• https://github.com/ansible/ansible-runner/issues/738
• https://github.com/ansible/ansible-runner/pull/742/commits

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