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CVE-2023-5189
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.
Related Resources (8)
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5189
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2234387
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7773
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1536
https://github.com/ansible/galaxy-importer/blob/2c5c7c05fdfb0835878234b36de32902c703616d/galaxy_importer/collection.py#L160-L165
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5189
https://github.com/ansible/galaxy-importer
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2010
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CVSS v4
Base Score:
7
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
PASSIVE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
LOW
Vulnerable System Integrity
HIGH
Vulnerable System Availability
NONE
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
6.3
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
LOW
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
NONE
Weakness Type (CWE)
Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
CWE-22
Relative Path Traversal
CWE-23
EPSS
Base Score:
0.64