CVE-2015-6240
Ansible Sandbox Escape via Symlink Attack
7.8
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.04%
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.
How to fix CVE-2015-6240
To remediate CVE-2015-6240, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- Debian/ansible—upgrade to 1.9.2+dfsg-1 or later
- PyPI/ansible—upgrade to 1.9.2 or later
- —upgrade to ca2f2c4ebd7b5e097eab0a710f79c1f63badf95b or later
Is CVE-2015-6240 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.0%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (3)
- from 0, < 1.9.2+dfsg-1
- from 0, < 1.9.2
- from 0, < ca2f2c4ebd7b5e097eab0a710f79c1f63badf95b, < 952166f48eb0f5797b75b160fd156bbe1e8fc647 | from 0, < 1.9.2
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |