CVE-2023-5115Medium· 6.3▾ SunlitAnsible symlink attack vulnerability
▾ Sunlit zone — Low / medium · no exploitation signal
impact 34.7 · likelihood 0.2 · exploitation 0
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Exploit-prediction probability, daily snapshots since Jul 8.
Disclosure to exploitation, from the record and what we observed since indexing it.
Disclosed via OSV
Last analysed / modified upstream
0.9%
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.
ansible < 8.5.0Upgrade to a patched release:
ansible 8.5.0Connected by shared product, vendor, weakness, or advisory.
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