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Permalink CVE-2023-5115
6.3 MEDIUM
  • CVSS version: 3.1
  • Attack vector (AV): NETWORK
  • Attack complexity (AC): LOW
  • Privileges required (PR): LOW
  • User interaction (UI): REQUIRED
  • Scope (S): UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality impact (C): LOW
  • Integrity impact (I): HIGH
  • Availability impact (A): NONE
created 6 months, 1 week ago
Malicious role archive can cause ansible-galaxy to overwrite arbitrary files

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.

References

Affected products

ansible
  • ==2.14.11
ansible-core
  • *

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