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CVE-2015-6240

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.

Published

2017-06-07T20:29:00.287

Last Modified

2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Status

Deferred

Source

[email protected]

Severity

CVSSv3.0: 7.8 (HIGH)

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Access Vector: LOCAL
Access Complexity: LOW
Authentication: NONE
Confidentiality Impact: COMPLETE
Integrity Impact: COMPLETE
Availability Impact: COMPLETE

Exploitability Score

3.9

Impact Score

10.0

Weaknesses

Type: Primary
CWE-59

Affected Vendors & Products

Type	Vendor	Product	Version/Range	Vulnerable?
Application	redhat	ansible	≤ 1.9.1	Yes

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/17/10 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243468 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory ([email protected])
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/952166f48eb0f5797b75b160fd156bbe1e8fc647 Patch ([email protected])
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/ca2f2c4ebd7b5e097eab0a710f79c1f63badf95b Patch ([email protected])
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00016.html ([email protected])
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/17/10 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243468 Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/952166f48eb0f5797b75b160fd156bbe1e8fc647 Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/ca2f2c4ebd7b5e097eab0a710f79c1f63badf95b Patch (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00016.html (af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)