Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting ansible package, versions [1.9.5,1.9.6)[2,2.0.2.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.04% (12th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-ANSIBLE-40389
  • published8 Apr 2016
  • disclosed8 Apr 2016
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 8 Apr 2016

CVE-2016-3096  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-94  (opens in a new tab)

Overview

ansible is a Radically simple IT automation The create_script function in the lxc_container module in Ansible before 1.9.6-1 and 2.x before 2.0.2.0 allows local users to write to arbitrary files or gain privileges via a symlink attack on (1) /opt/.lxc-attach-script, (2) the archived container in the archive_path directory, or the (3) lxc-attach-script.log or (4) lxc-attach-script.err files in the temporary directory.

CVSS Scores

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