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Ansible galaxy-importer Path Traversal vulnerability

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Nov 15, 2023 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Apr 25, 2024

Package

pip galaxy-importer (pip)

Affected versions

<= 0.4.16

Patched versions

None

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Nov 14, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Nov 15, 2023
Reviewed Nov 16, 2023
Last updated Apr 25, 2024

Severity

Moderate
6.3
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
High
Availability
None
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2023-5189

GHSA ID

GHSA-55g2-vm3q-7w52

Source code

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