CVE-2013-4259

LowCVSS 1.9/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

runner/connection_plugins/ssh.py in Ansible before 1.2.3, when using ControlPersist, allows local users to redirect a ssh session via a symlink attack on a socket file with a predictable name in /tmp/.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 1.9/10AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-264

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://www.ansible.com/securityVendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=998223Issue Tracking, Patch
https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/ansible-project/UVDYW0HGcNg
http://www.ansible.com/securityVendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=998223Issue Tracking, Patch
https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/ansible-project/UVDYW0HGcNg

Timeline

Published: Sep 16, 2013
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

Related CVEs from 2013

CVE-2013-42603.3lib/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 CVE-2013-42613.5OpenStack Compute (Nova) Folsom, Grizzly, and earlier, when using Apache Qpid for the RPC backend, does not properly handle errors that occu CVE-2013-42622.4svnwcsub.py in Subversion 1.8.0 before 1.8.3, when using the --pidfile option and running in foreground mode, allows local users to gain pri CVE-2013-42637.5libavfilter in FFmpeg before 2.0.1 has unspecified impact and remote vectors related to a crafted "plane," which triggers an out-of-bounds h CVE-2013-42644.3The kempf_decode_tile function in libavcodec/g2meet.c in FFmpeg before 2.0.1 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bo CVE-2013-426510.0The av_reallocp_array function in libavutil/mem.c in FFmpeg before 2.0.1 has an unspecified impact and remote vectors related to a "wrong re CVE-2013-42679.8Ajaxeplorer before 5.0.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the (1) archive_name parameter to CVE-2013-42703.6The net_ctl_permissions function in net/sysctl_net.c in the Linux kernel before 3.11.5 does not properly determine uid and gid values, which CVE-2013-42717.5The default configuration of the ObjectRepresentation class in Restlet before 2.1.4 deserializes objects from untrusted sources, which allow CVE-2013-42724.3The BOTCHA Spam Prevention module 7.x-1.x before 7.x-1.6, 7.x-2.x before 7.x-2.1, and 7.x-3.x before 7.x-3.3 for Drupal, when the debugging CVE-2013-42734.0The Entity API module 7.x-1.x before 7.x-1.2 for Drupal does not properly restrict access to node comments, which allows remote authenticate CVE-2013-42742.1Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the password_policy_admin_view function in password_policy.admin.inc in the Password Policy modu