CVE-2023-5189
CVSS v3
6.5
MEDIUM
EPSS Score
1.0 %
exploit probability, as of 2026-10-19
CISA KEV
No
known exploited
Exploitation
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SSVC status
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Affected and fixed versions
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Packages
- galaxy-importerPyPIall versions · no fixed version listed
Vendor advisories
Hub: insecure galaxy-importer tarfile extraction
Red Hat Security Advisory: Satellite 6.15.0 release
Red Hat Security Advisory: Satellite 6.14.3 Async Security Update
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 Product Security and Bug Fix Update
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.
Technical details
- Published
- 2023-11-14
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