{"answers":{"affected":"7 open source packages ship an affected version, including ansible. It affects 6 products.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-1733 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade ansible to a fixed version for your release line: 2.7.17, 2.8.8, 2.9.6 or 2.8.11.","what":"CVE-2020-1733 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 11 Mar 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."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2020-1733 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2020-1733 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 11 Mar 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.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-1733 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected packages and fixed versions:\n- ansible (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 2.7.17, 2.8.8, 2.9.6\n- ansible (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 2.7.17\n- ansible (PyPI): affected all versions; fixed in 2.7.17\n- ansible (PyPI): affected from 2.8.0a1; fixed in 2.8.11\n- ansible (PyPI): affected from 2.8.0a1; fixed in 2.8.11\n- ansible (PyPI): affected from 2.9.0a1; fixed in 2.9.7\n- ansible (PyPI): affected from 2.9.0a1; fixed in 2.9.7\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-1733/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-1733/index.md)","id":"CVE-2020-1733","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-1733/index.md","name":"CVE-2020-1733","record":{"aliases":["ALPINE-CVE-2020-1733","DEBIAN-CVE-2020-1733","GHSA-g4mq-6fp5-qwcf","PYSEC-2020-5","UBUNTU-CVE-2020-1733"],"analysis":{"component_type":"developer_tool","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["privilege_escalation"],"network_reachable":"adjacent_or_local","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"Ansible automation tool","requires_auth":"low_privilege","summary":"An attacker can exploit a race condition in Ansible's temporary directory creation to gain control of the become user, leading to privilege escalation.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"race_condition"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"redhat","cpe":[{"product":"debian_linux","vendor":"debian"},{"product":"fedora","vendor":"fedoraproject"},{"product":"ansible","vendor":"redhat"},{"product":"ansible_tower","vendor":"redhat"},{"product":"cloudforms_management_engine","vendor":"redhat"},{"product":"openstack","vendor":"redhat"}],"cvss":{"score":5,"severity":"medium","source":"cna","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L","version":"3.1"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-362","name":"Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization"},{"id":"CWE-377","name":"DEPRECATED: Insecure Temporary File"}],"description":"A race condition flaw was found in Ansible Engine 2.7.17 and prior, 2.8.9 and prior, 2.9.6 and prior when running a playbook with an unprivileged become user. When Ansible needs to run a module with become user, the temporary directory is created in /var/tmp. This directory is created with \"umask 77 \u0026\u0026 mkdir -p \u003cdir\u003e\"; this operation does not fail if the directory already exists and is owned by another user. An attacker could take advantage to gain control of the become user as the target directory can be retrieved by iterating '/proc/\u003cpid\u003e/cmdline'.","ecosystems":["PyPI"],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Ansible vulnerable to Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere and Insecure Temporary File","id":"CVE-2020-1733","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":"PyPI","product":"debian:debian_linux","products":["debian:debian_linux","fedoraproject:fedora","redhat:ansible_tower","redhat:openstack"],"type":"race_condition","year":"2020"},"n_packages":7,"n_references":8,"next":{"headline":"OS Command Injection in ansible","id":"CVE-2020-1734"},"packages":[{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["2.7.17","2.8.8","2.9.6"],"introduced":["0","2.8.0","2.9.0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"ansible","purl":"pkg:pypi/ansible","source":"PYSEC-2020-5"},{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["2.7.17"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"ansible","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-g4mq-6fp5-qwcf"},{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["2.7.17"],"introduced":["0"],"last_affected":[],"package":"ansible","purl":"pkg:pypi/ansible","source":"GHSA-g4mq-6fp5-qwcf"},{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["2.8.11"],"introduced":["2.8.0a1"],"last_affected":[],"package":"ansible","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-g4mq-6fp5-qwcf"},{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["2.8.11"],"introduced":["2.8.0a1"],"last_affected":[],"package":"ansible","purl":"pkg:pypi/ansible","source":"GHSA-g4mq-6fp5-qwcf"},{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["2.9.7"],"introduced":["2.9.0a1"],"last_affected":[],"package":"ansible","purl":null,"source":"GHSA-g4mq-6fp5-qwcf"},{"ecosystem":"PyPI","fixed":["2.9.7"],"introduced":["2.9.0a1"],"last_affected":[],"package":"ansible","purl":"pkg:pypi/ansible","source":"GHSA-g4mq-6fp5-qwcf"}],"prev":{"headline":"Race condition in Soteria","id":"CVE-2020-1732"},"products":["Ansible"],"published":"2020-03-11","related":[{"cvss_score":10,"headline":"ProFTPD Improper Access Control","id":"CVE-2015-3306","kev_date_added":"2026-10-08","published":"2015-05-18"},{"cvss_score":9.9,"headline":"RoundCube Webmail Deserialization of Untrusted Data","id":"CVE-2025-49113","kev_date_added":"2026-02-20","published":"2025-06-02"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"GNU InetUtils Argument Injection","id":"CVE-2026-24061","kev_date_added":"2026-01-26","published":"2026-01-21"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Linux Kernel Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions","id":"CVE-2025-39682","kev_date_added":"2026-09-18","published":"2025-09-05"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free","id":"CVE-2024-9680","kev_date_added":"2024-10-15","published":"2024-10-09"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"RARLAB UnRAR Directory Traversal","id":"CVE-2022-30333","kev_date_added":"2022-08-09","published":"2022-05-09"},{"cvss_score":9.8,"headline":"Roundcube Webmail SQL Injection","id":"CVE-2021-44026","kev_date_added":"2023-06-22","published":"2021-11-19"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"GitHub Advisory Database","prefix":"GHSA"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CC BY 4.0","name":"PyPA Advisory Database","prefix":"PYSEC"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2024-08-04","vendors":["Red Hat"]},"summary":"An attacker can exploit a race condition in Ansible's temporary directory creation to gain control of the become user, leading to privilege escalation.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2020-1733/"}