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title: "CVE-2013-4259\n    | Ubuntu"
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url: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-4259?format=md
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# CVE-2013-4259

Publication date 16 September 2013

Last updated 16 September 2025

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Ubuntu priority

**Low**

[Why this priority?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#priority )

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## 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](https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2013-4259?format=md#notes)

## Status

Show unmaintained releases

| 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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* [How can I get the fixes?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#security)
* [What do statuses mean?](https://ubuntu.com/security/cves/about#statuses)

## Notes

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### [seth-arnold](https://launchpad.net/~seth-arnold)

'low' because Ubuntu kernels have symlink and hardlink protections

## References

* [MITRE](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4259)
* [NVD](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4259)
* [Launchpad](https://launchpad.net/bugs/cve/CVE-2013-4259)
* [Debian](https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2013-4259)

### Other references

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