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.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1923-1 ansible security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-0003 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-wwwh-47wp-m522 Ansible Sandbox Escape via Symlink Attack
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-7330-1 Ansible vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-06T07:15:13.380Z

Reserved: 2015-08-14T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2015-6240

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-06-07T20:29:00.287

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2015-6240

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2015-06-19T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2015-6240 - Bugzilla

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