CVE-2023-5189 — Relative Path Traversal in Redhat Ansible Automation Platform

CWE-23 — Relative Path TraversalCWE-22 — Path Traversal6 documents5 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
CNA6.3
EPSS
0.6%
top 29.34%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Redhat Ansible Automation PlatformRedhat Satellite
Timeline
PublishedNov 14
Latest updateNov 15

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages2 packages

🔴Vulnerability Details

4
GHSA
Ansible galaxy-importer Path Traversal vulnerability↗2023-11-15
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OSV
Ansible galaxy-importer Path Traversal vulnerability↗2023-11-15
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OSV
CVE-2023-5189: A path traversal vulnerability exists in Ansible when extracting tarballs↗2023-11-14
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CVEList
Hub: insecure galaxy-importer tarfile extraction↗2023-11-14
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📋Vendor Advisories

1
Red Hat
Hub: insecure galaxy-importer tarfile extraction↗2023-09-26
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