CVE-2023-5189
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.
- Score
- CVSS 3.1 6.5 Medium
- Status
- Modified - secalert@redhat.com
- Published
- 2023-11-14
- Last modified
- 2025-11-20
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22, CWE-23
Affected products
- Ansible Automation Platform (Redhat)
- Ansible Automation Platform Developer (Redhat)
- Ansible Automation Platform Inside (Redhat)
- Satellite (Redhat)
- Satellite Capsule (Redhat)
- Satellite Maintenance (Redhat)
- Satellite Utils (Redhat)
References
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7773
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1536
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2010
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5189
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2234387
