CVE-2013-4260

lowpriority · track · 13EPSS 0.003 · 26 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.33% (26th) EPSS

CVSS 3.3 · low

Is it mine?

6 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

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/.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

6.2

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–medium · 2.8–6.2

v2.03.3lowAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.4 · impact 4.9

v2.02.8lowAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

v3.16.2mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:Nsecondary · OSV

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-264USprimaryCWE-281US

affected products (6)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
redhat ansible= 1.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat ansible= 1.2.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat ansible= 1.2.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
PyPI ansible1.2 → 1.2.3osvUSpkg:pypi/ansible
PyPI ansible1.2.0 → 1.2.3osvUSpkg:pypi/ansible

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-pcqv-c46v-2p4vAnsible Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerability2022-05-14ghsa · osvUS
`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/`.
PYSEC-2013-22013-09-16vendor · osvUS
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/.

also known as (6)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd osv nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2013-09-16modified 2026-06-16

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references (12)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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