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CVE-2013-4259

• Severity: low (CVSS 1.9 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2013-09-16 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-264

Description

runner/connection_plugins/ssh.py in Ansible before 1.2.3, when using ControlPersist, allows local users to redirect a ssh session via a symlink attack on a socket file with a predictable name in /tmp/.

Affected products

• Red Hat Ansible: through 1.2.2

References

• http://www.ansible.com/security
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=998223
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/ansible-project/UVDYW0HGcNg
• http://www.ansible.com/security
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=998223
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/ansible-project/UVDYW0HGcNg

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