CVE-2023-5764

HIGH

Ansible < 2.14.12 and 2.16.0-2.16.1 - Template Injection via Unsafe Data Handling

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

A template injection flaw was found in Ansible where a user's controller internal templating operations may remove the unsafe designation from template data. This issue could allow an attacker to use a specially crafted file to introduce templating injection when supplying templating data.

References (5)

Core 5
Core References
Vendor Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7773
Vendor Advisory vdb-entry x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5764
Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory issue-tracking x_refsource_redhat
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2247629

Scores

CVSS v3 7.1
EPSS 0.0054
EPSS Percentile 40.9%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact total

Details

CWE
CWE-1336
Status published
Products (9)
fedoraproject/extra_packages_for_enterprise_linux 8.0
fedoraproject/fedora 38
fedoraproject/fedora 39
pypi/ansible-core 2.16.0 - 2.16.1PyPI
redhat/ansible 2.16.0 (4 CPE variants)
redhat/ansible < 2.14.12
redhat/ansible_automation_platform 2.4
redhat/ansible_developer 1.1
redhat/ansible_inside 1.2
Published Dec 12, 2023
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026