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SCA: security update for ansible (GHSA-pcqv-c46v-2p4v)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 433011

Description

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

 - 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/. (CVE-2013-4260)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pcqv-c46v-2p4v

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 433011

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/11/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.3

Temporal Score: 2.4

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2013-4260

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.2

Temporal Score: 5.4

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.9

Threat Score: 4.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/18/2013

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2013-4260

BID: 62130

cwe: CWE-281