CVE-2023-5189CWE-23

Hub: insecure galaxy-importer tarfile extraction

Medium · published November 14, 2023

CVSS v3.1
6.3
EPSS
1%
Percentile
61.9
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

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
0.00982 · 61.9th percentile
Weakness
CWE-23 · Relative Path Traversal
Published
2023-11-14T22:57Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 14 NOV 22:57Z
    Hub: insecure galaxy-importer tarfile extraction
    cvelistv5