CVEvulnerability

CVE-2023-5189

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2023-11-14 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2023-11-14
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.3 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-22, CWE-23

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.

Affected configurations

• redhat ansible automation platform 2.0 • redhat satellite 6.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
  • CWE-23 Relative Path Traversal weakness

References