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

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

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

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CVE-2015-6240: High severity, CVSS 7.8 | Vulnix