CVE-2023-5189

MEDIUM

Ansible Automation Platform - Path Traversal via Malicious Tarball Extraction

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7773
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1536
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2010
Vendor Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5189
Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory issue-tracking x_refsource_redhat
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2234387

Scores

CVSS v3 6.3
EPSS 0.0083
EPSS Percentile 52.7%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-22 CWE-23
Status published
Products (3)
pypi/galaxy-importer 0PyPI
redhat/ansible_automation_platform 2.0
redhat/satellite 6.0
Published Nov 14, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026