ADVISORY

HIGH: ansible-jailexec — 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 putfile 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…

Source ansible-jailexecPublished 3d ago · Aug 12, 2026Posted on Bluesky

What we hold

Package
ansible-jailexec
Ecosystem
pip
Severity
HIGH
ID
CVE-2026-55074

Through version 1.3.0, the jailexec connection plugin's putfile 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…

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