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[GHSA] GHSA-cxgv-hp74-jj7r (high) — Ansible FreeBSD Jail Connection Plugin: Jail escape via symlink following in put_file (host-side root mv)

medgithub_advisoriesPublished 2026-08-12

GHSA-cxgv-hp74-jj7r Severity: high CVE: CVE-2026-55074

Ansible FreeBSD Jail Connection Plugin: Jail escape via symlink following in put_file (host-side root mv)

Through version 1.3.0, the jailexec connection plugin's put_file resolved a transfer's destination to a path on the jail host (<jail filesystem root> + <destination>) and ran mkdir -p and mv there as root on the host. Those commands foll

Indicators of compromise

Original source: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-cxgv-hp74-jj7r