CVE-2023-5189Medium· 6.3▾ SunlitAnsible galaxy-importer Path Traversal 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
0.8%
0.8% → 0.8%
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.
galaxy-importer <= 0.4.16Refer to the advisory for the patched release.