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SCA: security update for ansible (GHSA-vp9j-rghq-8jhh)

low Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 431714

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - An incomplete fix was found for the fix of the flaw CVE-2020-1733 ansible: insecure temporary directory
 when running become_user from become directive. The provided fix is insufficient to prevent the race
 condition on systems using ACLs and FUSE filesystems. Ansible Engine 2.7.18, 2.8.12, and 2.9.9 as well as
 previous versions are affected and Ansible Tower 3.4.5, 3.5.6 and 3.6.4 as well as previous versions are
 affected. (CVE-2020-10744)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vp9j-rghq-8jhh

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 431714

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/7/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.1

Percentile: 49.34

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.7

Temporal Score: 2.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-10744

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2

Threat Score: 0.4

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:L/SC:L/SI:L/SA:L

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/9/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/15/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-10744