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GSD-2013-4260

Vulnerability from gsd - Updated: 2023-12-13 01:22

Details

lib/ansible/playbook/__init__.py in Ansible 1.2.x before 1.2.3, when playbook does not run due to an error, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files via a symlink attack on a retry file with a predictable name in /var/tmp/ansible/.

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CVE-2013-4260

Aliases

CVE-2013-4260

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CVE-2013-4260 (GCVE-0-2013-4260)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2013-09-16 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 16:38

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

redhat redhat root

References

4 references

URL	Tags
https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/ansible…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=998227	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit…	vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.ansible.com/security	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Date Public

2013-08-21 00:00

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