CVE-2021-3533

medium
Published 2021-06-09 · Modified 2023-11-08
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
5.5

Description

A flaw was found in Ansible if an ansible user sets ANSIBLE_ASYNC_DIR to a subdirectory of a world writable directory. When this occurs, there is a race condition on the managed machine. A malicious, non-privileged account on the remote machine can exploit the race condition to access the async result data. This flaw affects Ansible Tower 3.7 and Ansible Automation Platform 1.2.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3533.html

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archaffected
suse slesaffected

Package impact

EcosystemPackageVulnerableFixed
python PyPIansible<3.0.03.0.0

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.