SB2020051522 - Race condition in Ansible Engine and Ansible Tower 



SB2020051522 - Race condition in Ansible Engine and Ansible Tower

Published: May 15, 2020 Updated: July 7, 2020

Security Bulletin ID SB2020051522
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Local access
Highest impact Code execution

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) Race condition (CVE-ID: CVE-2020-10744)

The vulnerability allows a local user to escalate privileges on the system.

The vulnerability exists due to incomplete fix for race condition for SB2020032420 #8 (CVE-2020-1733) on systems using ACLs and FUSE filesystems. A local user can exploit the race and escalate privileges on the system.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.