Vulnerability CVE-2015-6240
Published: 2017-06-07

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.

Type:

CWE-59

 (Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following'))

CVSS2 => (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.2/10
10/10
3.9/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Local
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Redhat -> Ansible 
Ansibleworks -> Ansible 

 References:
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/17/10
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243468
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/952166f48eb0f5797b75b160fd156bbe1e8fc647
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/ca2f2c4ebd7b5e097eab0a710f79c1f63badf95b
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00016.html
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