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CVE-2015-6240

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-06-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-59

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.

Affected products

• Red Hat Ansible: through 1.9.1

References

• 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
• 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

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