CVE-2013-4259: Red Hat Ansible

Low severity, CVSS 1.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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/.

Affected products

• Red Hat Ansible: up to and including 1.2.2

Published 2013-09-16. Last modified 2026-06-16.