CVE-2013-4260

Published: 16 September 2013

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/.

Status

References

• https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ansible-project/UVDYW0HGcNg
• https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-4260
• NVD
• Launchpad
• Debian

Bugs

• https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ansible/+bug/1256068