CVE-2021-3702

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.2% 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-362

Description

A race condition flaw was found in ansible-runner, where an attacker could watch for rapid creation and deletion of a temporary directory, substitute their directory at that name, and then have access to ansible-runner's private_data_dir the next time ansible-runner made use of the private_data_dir. The highest Threat out of this flaw is to integrity and confidentiality.

Affected products

ansible-runner: 2.0.0

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3702
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1977965
https://github.com/ansible/ansible-runner/pull/742/commits
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3702
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1977965
https://github.com/ansible/ansible-runner/pull/742/commits

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