CVE-2015-6240
high
CVSS v3
7.8
CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
7.8
Description
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
75%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 1.9.2+dfsg-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 1.9.2+dfsg-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 1.9.2+dfsg-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 1.9.2+dfsg-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 1.9.2+dfsg-1 |
Application impact
| Vendor | Product | Versions | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhat | ansible | {"endIncluding":"1.9.1"} | |
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2015-6240
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/17/10
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1243468
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/952166f48eb0f5797b75b160fd156bbe1e8fc647
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/ca2f2c4ebd7b5e097eab0a710f79c1f63badf95b
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/09/msg00016.html
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-6240
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/ansible/PYSEC-2017-3.yaml
CWEs
CWE-59
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.