CVE-2013-4259

Publication date 16 September 2013

Last updated 16 September 2025

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/.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
ansible	14.04 LTS trusty	Not affected
	13.10 saucy	Ignored end of life
	13.04 raring	Not in release
	12.10 quantal	Not in release
	12.04 LTS precise	Not in release
	10.04 LTS lucid	Not in release

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Notes

seth-arnold

'low' because Ubuntu kernels have symlink and hardlink protections

References

MITRE
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Other references

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ansible-project/UVDYW0HGcNg
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2013-4259