CVE-2021-3701: Red Hat Ansible Runner

Medium severity, CVSS 6.6. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A flaw was found in ansible-runner where the default temporary files configuration in ansible-2.0.0 are written to world R/W locations. This flaw allows an attacker to pre-create the directory, resulting in reading private information or forcing ansible-runner to write files as the legitimate user in a place they did not expect. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to confidentiality and integrity.

Affected products

• Red Hat Ansible Runner: version 2.0.0 only

Published 2022-08-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.