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| Vulnerability ID | VCID-4yvf-k192-9fca |
| Aliases |
CVE-2021-3533
PYSEC-2021-126 |
| Summary | A flaw was found in Ansible if an ansible user sets ANSIBLE_ASYNC_DIR to a subdirectory of a world writable directory. When this occurs, there is a race condition on the managed machine. A malicious, non-privileged account on the remote machine can exploit the race condition to access the async result data. This flaw affects Ansible Tower 3.7 and Ansible Automation Platform 1.2. |
| Status | Invalid |
| Exploitability | 0.5 |
| Weighted Severity | 6.2 |
| Risk | 3.1 |
| Affected and Fixed Packages | Package Details |
| System | Score | Found at |
|---|---|---|
| cvssv3.1 | 5 | https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml |
| archlinux | Medium | https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-2056 |
| Reference id | Reference type | URL |
|---|---|---|
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1956477 | ||
| https://ftp.suse.com/pub/projects/security/yaml/suse-cvss-scores.yaml | ||
| AVG-2056 | https://security.archlinux.org/AVG-2056 | |
| CVE-2021-3533 | https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-3533 |
| Attack Vector (AV) | Attack Complexity (AC) | Privileges Required (PR) | User Interaction (UI) | Scope (S) | Confidentiality Impact (C) | Integrity Impact (I) | Availability Impact (A) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
network adjacent_network local physical |
low high |
none low high |
none required |
unchanged changed |
high low none |
high low none |
high low none |
No EPSS data available for this vulnerability.
| Date | Actor | Action | Source | VulnerableCode Version |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-04-03T13:25:20.830529+00:00 | NVD CVE Status Improver | Improve | https://cveawg.mitre.org/api/cve/CVE-2021-3533 | 38.1.0 |
| 2026-04-01T12:46:04.839720+00:00 | Pypa Importer | Import | https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/blob/main/vulns/ansible/PYSEC-2021-126.yaml | 38.0.0 |