CVE-2023-5115CWE-36
Ansible: malicious role archive can cause ansible-galaxy to overwrite arbitrary files
Medium · published December 18, 2023
What it is
An absolute path traversal attack exists in the Ansible automation platform. This flaw allows an attacker to craft a malicious Ansible role and make the victim execute the role. A symlink can be used to overwrite a file outside of the extraction path.
The record
Technical detail
- CVSS v3.1
- 6.3 · MEDIUM
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
- CVSS v4.0
- Not supplied
- EPSS
- 0.01013 · 62.9th percentile
- Weakness
- CWE-36 · Absolute Path Traversal
- Published
- 2023-12-18T13:43Z
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