CVE-2020-10744 Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere and Insecure Temporary File in Ansible

What is CVE-2020-10744?

CVE-2020-10744 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Redhat Ansible Tower, published on 15 May 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

An incomplete fix was found for the fix of the flaw CVE-2020-1733 ansible: insecure temporary directory when running become_user from become directive. The provided fix is insufficient to prevent the race condition on systems using ACLs and FUSE filesystems. Ansible Engine 2.7.18, 2.8.12, and 2.9.9 as well as previous versions are affected and Ansible Tower 3.4.5, 3.5.6 and 3.6.4 as well as previous versions are affected.

Weakness: CWE-362, CWE-377

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-10744?

5 open source packages ship an affected version, including ansible. It affects 2 products.

Products include Redhat Ansible, Redhat Ansible Tower.

How do I fix CVE-2020-10744?

Upgrade ansible to a fixed version for your release line: 2.9.12, 2.10.0rc1, 2.8.0a1 or 2.8.13.

Is CVE-2020-10744 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-10744 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Redhat Ansible Tower

• CVE-2014-4657 Ansible Remote Code Execution Critical 9.8
• CVE-2014-4966 Ansible Arbitrary Code Execution Critical 9.8
• CVE-2014-4967 Ansible Arbitrary Code Execution Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-7550 Ansible Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File vulnerability Critical 9.8
• CVE-2014-3498 Ansible Arbitrary Code Execution High 8.8

All Redhat Ansible Tower vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2020-10744, GHSA-vp9j-rghq-8jhh, PYSEC-2020-208, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-10744.