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.
Published: 2017-06-07
Score: 7.8 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1923-1 ansible security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-0003 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-wwwh-47wp-m522 Ansible Sandbox Escape via Symlink Attack
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7330-1 Ansible vulnerabilities
History

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T07:15:13.380Z

Reserved: 2015-08-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2015-6240

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-06-07T20:29:00.287

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2015-6240

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2015-06-19T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-6240 - Bugzilla

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Weaknesses