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CVE-2015-6240 (GCVE-0-2015-6240)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-06-07 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 07:15
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Summary
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.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2015-07-15 00:00
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