VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2023-5189

CVSS score6.3 MEDIUM
EPSS probability0.98%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2023-11-14
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N

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.

Weakness classification

  • secalert@redhat.com: CWE-23
  • nvd@nist.gov: CWE-22

Primary references