CVE-2021-3533

NameCVE-2021-3533
DescriptionA 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.
SourceCVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)
Debian Bugs1014857

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source PackageReleaseVersionStatus
ansible (PTS)buster, buster (security)2.7.7+dfsg-1+deb10u1vulnerable
bullseye2.10.7+merged+base+2.10.8+dfsg-1vulnerable
bookworm7.3.0+dfsg-1vulnerable
trixie, sid7.7.0+dfsg-3vulnerable

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

PackageTypeReleaseFixed VersionUrgencyOriginDebian Bugs
ansiblesourcestretch(unfixed)end-of-life
ansiblesource(unstable)(unfixed)1014857
ansible-basesource(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

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