Fluid Attacks Database

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.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

Ecosystem	Package	Affected version	Patched versions
pypi	ansible	>=0 <1.9.2	1.9.2
debian 13	ansible	>=0 <1.9.2+dfsg-1	1.9.2+dfsg-1
debian 12	ansible	>=0 <1.9.2+dfsg-1	1.9.2+dfsg-1
debian 11	ansible	>=0 <1.9.2+dfsg-1	1.9.2+dfsg-1
debian 14	ansible	>=0 <1.9.2+dfsg-1	1.9.2+dfsg-1

Aliases

1. CVE-2015-62402. NVD-2015-62403. OSV-2015-62404. OSV-DEBIAN-2015-62405. GCVE-2015-62406. lists.debian.org7. SECURITY-TRACKER-CVE-2015-6240

References

1. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/952166f48eb0f5797b75b160fd156bbe1e8fc6472. https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/ca2f2c4ebd7b5e097eab0a710f79c1f63badf95b3. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12434684. https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/ansible/PYSEC-2017-3.yaml5. http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/08/17/10

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