CVE-2023-5189

Hub: insecure galaxy-importer tarfile extraction

Published Nov 14, 2023 CVSS 3.1 · 6.3 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
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.

Remediation

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2023-2886 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.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-55g2-vm3q-7w52 Ansible galaxy-importer Path Traversal vulnerability
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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00475}

epss

{'score': 0.00424}

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Weaknesses CWE-23
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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}