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.
Published: 2023-11-14
Score: 6.3 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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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
History

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00475}

epss

{'score': 0.00424}


Fri, 06 Dec 2024 11:15:00 +0000

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Weaknesses CWE-23

Sat, 23 Nov 2024 04:15:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

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


Subscriptions

Redhat Ansible Automation Platform Ansible Automation Platform Developer Ansible Automation Platform Inside Satellite Satellite Capsule Satellite Maintenance Satellite Utils
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2025-11-20T17:30:17.896Z

Reserved: 2023-09-26T05:27:24.004Z

Link: CVE-2023-5189

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-02T07:52:08.227Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-11-14T23:15:12.290

Modified: 2024-12-06T11:15:07.380

Link: CVE-2023-5189

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2023-09-26T05:28:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-5189 - Bugzilla

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Weaknesses