VulnerabilityModified
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.
HIGH 7.8EPSS 0.45%
Does this matter?
High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.45%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit.
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 3.0
- 7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.45% probability · 38th percentile
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-59
- Affected
- redhat/ansible
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
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
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.