High severity · published Jun 7, 2017
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
7.8
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 39% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AN
Ansible · Redhat
through 1.9.1 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-6240
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-6240
Mailing List
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/17/10
Issue Tracking
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243468
Patch
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/952166f48eb0f5797b75b160fd156bbe1e8fc647
Patch
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/ca2f2c4ebd7b5e097eab0a710f79c1f63badf95b
lists.debian.org
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00016.html
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