| Name | CVE-2021-3533 |
| Description | A flaw was found in Ansible if an ansible user sets ANSIBLE_ASYNC_DIR to a subdirectory of a world writable directory. When this occurs, there is a race condition on the managed machine. A malicious, non-privileged account on the remote machine can exploit the race condition to access the async result data. This flaw affects Ansible Tower 3.7 and Ansible Automation Platform 1.2. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 1014857 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| ansible (PTS) | buster, buster (security) | 2.7.7+dfsg-1+deb10u1 | vulnerable |
| bullseye | 2.10.7+merged+base+2.10.8+dfsg-1 | vulnerable |
| bookworm, sid | 7.3.0+dfsg-1 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| ansible | source | stretch | (unfixed) | end-of-life | | |
| ansible | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | | | 1014857 |
| ansible-base | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | | | |
Notes
[bookworm] - ansible <postponed> (Minor issue, revisit when/if fixed upstream)
[bullseye] - ansible <postponed> (Minor issue, revisit when/if fixed upstream)
[buster] - ansible <postponed> (Minor issue, revisit when/if fixed upstream)
[stretch] - ansible <end-of-life> (EOL'd for stretch)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1956477