{"id":"CVE-2023-5189","aliases":["GHSA-55g2-vm3q-7w52","PYSEC-2026-1401"],"title":"Ansible galaxy-importer Path Traversal vulnerability","summary":"Ansible galaxy-importer Path Traversal vulnerability","severity":"medium","cvss":6.3,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N","vendor":"galaxy-importer","product":"galaxy-importer","ecosystem":"pip","affected":["galaxy-importer <= 0.4.16"],"published":"2023-11-15","updated":"2026-07-07","source":"OSV","sourceUrl":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-55g2-vm3q-7w52","references":[{"url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5189"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7773"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1536"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2010"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5189"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2234387"},{"url":"https://github.com/ansible/galaxy-importer"},{"url":"https://github.com/ansible/galaxy-importer/blob/2c5c7c05fdfb0835878234b36de32902c703616d/galaxy_importer/collection.py#L160-L165"}],"tags":["osv","pip"],"epss":0.00841,"epssPercentile":0.55891,"ingestedAt":"2026-07-08T18:25:45.773Z","slug":"CVE-2023-5189","body":"## Overview\n\nA 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.\n\n## Affected packages\n\n- `galaxy-importer <= 0.4.16`\n\n## Remediation\n\nRefer to the advisory for the patched release.","depth":"sunlit","depthScore":35,"depthScoreParts":{"impact":34.7,"likelihood":0.2,"exploitation":0,"ransomware":0},"changes":[]}