CVEvulnerability
CVE-2015-6240
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-06-07
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-59
Description
The chroot, jail, and zone connection plugins in ansible before 1.9.2 allow local users to escape a restricted environment via a symlink attack.
Affected configurations
• redhat ansible (<= 1.9.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/17/10 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243468 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/952166f48eb0f5797b75b160fd156bbe1e8fc647 Patch
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/ca2f2c4ebd7b5e097eab0a710f79c1f63badf95b Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00016.html lists.debian.org
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/17/10 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243468 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/952166f48eb0f5797b75b160fd156bbe1e8fc647 Patch
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/ca2f2c4ebd7b5e097eab0a710f79c1f63badf95b Patch
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00016.html lists.debian.org