Upstream information

CVE-2021-3533 at MITRE

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.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Analysis

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v3 Scores
  SUSE
Base Score 5
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Access Vector Local
Access Complexity Low
Privileges Required Low
User Interaction Required
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality Impact High
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact None
CVSSv3 Version 3.1
SUSE Bugzilla entry: 1186245 [NEW]

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Status of this issue by product and package

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Product(s) Source package State
HPE Helion OpenStack 8 ansible Analysis
HPE Helion OpenStack 8 ansible1 Analysis
HPE Helion OpenStack 8 ardana-ansible Analysis
HPE Helion OpenStack 8 ardana-service-ansible Analysis
SUSE Manager Client Tools Beta for SLE 15 ansible Analysis
SUSE Manager Client Tools for SLE 15 ansible Analysis
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 ansible Unsupported
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 ansible Analysis
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 ansible1 Analysis
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 ardana-ansible Analysis
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 8 ardana-service-ansible Analysis
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9 ansible1 Analysis
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9 ardana-ansible Analysis
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 9 ardana-service-ansible Analysis
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 ansible Analysis