🛡️ CVE-2015-6240 — ansible

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-59 OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Ansible Sandbox Escape via Symlink Attack

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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Weakness class

CVE-2015-6240 is classified as CWE-59: Link Following. The software follows symbolic or hard links without verifying their target, so a planted link can redirect an operation to a sensitive file.

Affected software

CVE-2015-6240 is recorded against 1 package.

  • ansible (fixed in 1.9.2)

Timeline and source

Published on 13 May 2022 and last revised on 30 August 2024. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)
github.com (Web)
github.com (Web)
bugzilla.redhat.com (Web)
github.com (Package)
github.com (Web)
lists.debian.org (Web)
www.openwall.com (Web)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CWE CWE-59
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2022-05-13
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2024-08-30
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
ansible — 1.9.2

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