PT-2017-6999 · Red Hat+4 · Ansible+4

Vasyl Kaigorodov · Published 2015-06-27 · Updated 2025-03-28 · CVE-2015-6240

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v4.0

8.5

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions ansible versions prior to 1.9.2

Description The issue allows local users to escape a restricted environment via a symlink attack, specifically affecting the chroot, jail, and zone connection plugins.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.9.2, update to version 1.9.2 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Link Following

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-59

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-1579

CVE-2015-6240

DLA-1923-1

GHSA-WWWH-47WP-M522

PYSEC-2017-3

USN-7330-1

USN-7330-2

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Ansible-Core

Linuxmint

Ubuntu

Ansible

References · 30

• https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/ca2f2c4ebd7b5e097eab0a710f79c1f63badf95b · Patch
• https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/952166f48eb0f5797b75b160fd156bbe1e8fc647 · Patch
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-7330-2 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-wwwh-47wp-m522 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2015-6240 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-6240 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-10729 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-6240 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-7330-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-1739 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-3908 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7330-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-14904 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-10206 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2017-3 · Vendor Advisory