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created 4 months, 3 weeks 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.

Affected products

ansible
  • ==2.14.11
ansible-core
  • *

Matching in nixpkgs

pkgs.ansible-cmdb

Generate host overview from ansible fact gathering output

  • nixos-unstable -

pkgs.ansible-doctor

Annotation based documentation for your Ansible roles

  • nixos-unstable -

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