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CVE-2021-3702

22
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-3702 is a race condition vulnerability in ansible-runner that allows an attacker to gain unauthorized access to ansible-runner's private_data_dir. By exploiting the rapid creation and deletion of a temporary directory, an attacker can substitute their own directory, leading to high impact on data confidentiality and integrity. This medium-severity flaw (CVSS 6.3) requires local access and high attack complexity, but does not involve user interaction. Currently, there is no known active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_runner:2.0.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.3MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.0
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.19%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
8.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0019 is in the 46th percentile among its peer group of 1,297 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.4 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (3)

github_advisorypatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: ansible-runnerFixed in: 2.1.0
redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-772j-xvf9-qpf5medium

ansible-runner vulnerable to Race Condition

Aug 24, 2022
redhatCVE-2021-3702Moderate

ansible-runner: Race condition with temporary files in tempfile.TemporaryDirectory()

Jun 26, 2021

References

access.redhat.com / security/cve/CVE-2021-3702
Vendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
github.com / ansible/ansible-runner/pull/742/commits
PatchThird Party Advisory