CVE-2013-4259

lowpriority · track · 8OT risk · elevatedEPSS 0.003 · 28 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.34% (28th) EPSS

CVSS 1.9 · low

Is it mine?

3 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

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/.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

4.0

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · low–medium · 1.6–4

v2.01.9lowAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:Nprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.4 · impact 2.9

v2.01.6lowAV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

v3.14mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:Nsecondary · OSV

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-264USprimaryCWE-330US

affected products (3)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
redhat ansible≤ 1.2.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
PyPI ansible< 1.2.3osvUSpkg:pypi/ansible

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-fj24-ghp9-39v3Ansible uses a socket with predictable filename in /tmp2022-05-14ghsa · osvUS
`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/`.
PYSEC-2013-12013-09-16vendor · osvUS
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/.

also known as (6)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd osv nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2013-09-16modified 2026-06-16

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references (9)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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