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SCA: security update for ansible-runner (GHSA-772j-xvf9-qpf5)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 411882

Description

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

 - A race condition flaw was found in ansible-runner, where an attacker could watch for rapid creation and
 deletion of a temporary directory, substitute their directory at that name, and then have access to
 ansible-runner's private_data_dir the next time ansible-runner made use of the private_data_dir. The
 highest Threat out of this flaw is to integrity and confidentiality. (CVE-2021-3702)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-772j-xvf9-qpf5

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 411882

Version: Revision 1.5

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.04

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.5

Temporal Score: 4.1

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2021-3702

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Threat Score: 1.7

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/24/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/23/2022

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2021-3702