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Github GHSA |
GHSA-cxgv-hp74-jj7r | Ansible FreeBSD Jail Connection Plugin: Jail escape via symlink following in put_file (host-side root mv) |
Mon, 21 Sep 2026 19:45:00 +0000
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Chofstede
Chofstede ansible Jailexec |
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Chofstede
Chofstede ansible Jailexec |
Mon, 21 Sep 2026 16:30:00 +0000
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ssvc
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Mon, 21 Sep 2026 14:45:00 +0000
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| Description | Ansible FreeBSD Jail Connection Plugin is an Ansible connection plugin for FreeBSD Jails via jexec. Through version 1.3.0, the jailexec connection plugin's put_file resolved a transfer's destination to a path on the jail host ( + ) and ran mkdir -p and mv there as root on the host. Those commands follow symbolic links, and the path was operated on outside the jail, so a symlink existing inside the jail was followed by the host-side, root-privileged mv. A party controlling content inside a managed jail (the jail's root, or any process able to create a symlink in a directory an Ansible task later writes to) can therefore cause an arbitrary root-owned write on the host, outside the jail — a full jail escape. Arbitrary root-owned host writes are readily escalated to host compromise (e.g. cron, rc.d, authorized_keys). Preconditions for this vulnerability are that the operator runs a copy/template/fetch-style task (anything using put_file) against the jail, and the attacker can place a symlink inside the jail at or above the task's destination before the transfer runs. This issue has been fixed in version 2.0.0. | |
| Title | Ansible FreeBSD Jail Connection Plugin: Jail escape via symlink following in put_file (host-side root mv) | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-59 | |
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cvssV4_0
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published:
Updated: 2026-09-21T15:44:36.603Z
Reserved: 2026-06-16T14:33:35.710Z
Link: CVE-2026-55074
Updated: 2026-09-21T15:44:29.901Z
Status : Received
Published: 2026-09-21T15:17:29.627
Modified: 2026-09-21T16:17:09.260
Link: CVE-2026-55074
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OpenCVE Enrichment
Updated: 2026-09-21T19:23:35Z
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CWE-59
Improper Link Resolution Before File Access ('Link Following')
Github GHSA