CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-3096
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-06-03
- 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 create_script function in the lxc_container module in Ansible before 1.9.6-1 and 2.x before 2.0.2.0 allows local users to write to arbitrary files or gain privileges via a symlink attack on (1) /opt/.lxc-attach-script, (2) the archived container in the archive_path directory, or the (3) lxc-attach-script.log or (4) lxc-attach-script.err files in the temporary directory.
Affected configurations
• fedoraproject fedora 22
• fedoraproject fedora 23
• fedoraproject fedora 24
• redhat ansible (<= 1.9.6)
• redhat ansible 2.0
• redhat ansible 2.0.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access weakness
References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183103.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183132.html Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183252.html Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183274.html Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184175.html Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1322925 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-extras/pull/1941 Patch
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-extras/pull/1941/commits/8c6fe646ee79f5e55361b885b7efed5bec72d4a4 Patch
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v1.9.6-1/CHANGELOG.md#196-dancing-in-the-street---tbd Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.0.2.0-1/CHANGELOG.md#202-over-the-hills-and-far-away Patch
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/ansible-announce/E80HLZilTU0 groups.google.com
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/ansible-announce/tqiZbcWxYig groups.google.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-14 Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183103.html Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183132.html Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183252.html Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/183274.html Vendor Advisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-May/184175.html Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1322925 Issue Tracking
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-extras/pull/1941 Patch
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible-modules-extras/pull/1941/commits/8c6fe646ee79f5e55361b885b7efed5bec72d4a4 Patch
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v1.9.6-1/CHANGELOG.md#196-dancing-in-the-street---tbd Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.0.2.0-1/CHANGELOG.md#202-over-the-hills-and-far-away Patch
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/ansible-announce/E80HLZilTU0 groups.google.com
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/ansible-announce/tqiZbcWxYig groups.google.com
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201607-14 Third Party Advisory