🛡️ CVE-2013-4259 — ansible

🟢 CVSS 2.0 — Low ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-330 OSV
2.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Ansible uses a socket with predictable filename in /tmp

runner/connection_plugins/ssh.py in Ansible before 1.2.3, when using ControlPersist, allows local users to redirect a ssh session via a symlink attack on a socket file with a predictable name in /tmp/.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. Rated impact: confidentiality none, integrity low, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2013-4259 is classified as CWE-330: Use of Insufficiently Random Values. Values that must be unpredictable are generated in a way an attacker can guess or reproduce.

Affected software

CVE-2013-4259 is recorded against 1 package.

  • ansible (fixed in 1.2.3)

Timeline and source

Published on 14 May 2022 and last revised on 4 September 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
bugzilla.redhat.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)
groups.google.com (Web)
groups.google.com (Web)
www.ansible.com (Web)

Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 2.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE CWE-330
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-14
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-09-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
ansible — 1.2.3

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