Vigil@nce - Ansible Core: privilege escalation via wrong creation of user directory
May 2020 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Ansible Core, Debian, Fedora.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: administrator access/rights, privileged
access/rights.
Provenance: user shell.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 12/03/2020.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can control a user dedicated folder that should be
created by Ansible Core, in order to escalate his privileges.
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