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high 7.8

CVE-2015-6240 json

Ansible Sandbox Escape via Symlink Attack

published 9y ago modified 4mo ago also GHSA-wwwh-47wp-m522 , PYSEC-2017-3 , EUVD-2017-0003

cvss
7.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 38%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • pypi ansible 1.9.2
  • ansible Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.9.2+dfsg-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2015-6240

  • ansible Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 1.5.4+dfsg-1ubuntu0.1~esm3

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2015-6240

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

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Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2015-6240 updated cvss 7.6

ansible: multiple issues fixed in 1.9.2

  • Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3 ansible Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton) ansible Red Hat Quickstart Cloud Installer 1 ansible Red Hat Storage 3 ansible Red Hat Storage Console 2 ansible
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

0.44% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 38% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
NVD 2.0 7.2 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
GitHub 3.0 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
pypi ansible
<1.9.2
1.9.2

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-59 Improper Link Resolution Before File Access

References

Sources

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