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.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2023-5189

Affected Products

Vendor: Red Hat

Product: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.13% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 48.68% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-02-03 (when was this score calculated)

References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7773
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1536
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2010
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5189
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2234387

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