Medium severity · published Nov 14, 2023
CVE-2023-5189
A path traversal vulnerability exists in Ansible when extracting tarballs
6.5
CVSS
1%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
A path traversal vulnerability exists in Ansible when extracting tarballs. An attacker could craft a malicious tarball so that when using the galaxy importer of Ansible Automation Hub, a symlink could be dropped on the disk, resulting in files being overwritten.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
High
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.0% · higher than 62% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
AA
Ansible Automation Platform · Redhat
2.0 · source: NVD
SA
Satellite · Redhat
6.0 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5189
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-5189
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7773
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1536
access.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2010
Vendor Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5189
Exploit
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2234387
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