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CVE-2023-5189

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Date: November 14, 2023

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.

Language: Python

Severity Score

Related Resources (9)

https://github.com/ansible/galaxy-importer
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5189
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2234387
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2010
https://github.com/ansible/galaxy-importer/blob/2c5c7c05fdfb0835878234b36de32902c703616d/galaxy_importer/collection.py#L160-L165
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7773
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5189
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1536
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2023-5189

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

CWE-22

Relative Path Traversal

CWE-23

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): LOW
User Interaction (UI): REQUIRED
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): LOW
Integrity (I): HIGH
Availability (A): NONE

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