CVE-2015-6240

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-59

Affected software

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

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/17/10Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243468Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/952166f48eb0f5797b75b160fd156bbe1e8fc647Patch
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/ca2f2c4ebd7b5e097eab0a710f79c1f63badf95bPatch
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00016.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/17/10Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243468Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/952166f48eb0f5797b75b160fd156bbe1e8fc647Patch
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/ca2f2c4ebd7b5e097eab0a710f79c1f63badf95bPatch
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00016.html

Timeline

Published: Jun 7, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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