CVE-2023-5115 (GCVE-0-2023-5115)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-12-18 13:43 – Updated: 2025-11-20 17:29
VLAI?
Title
Ansible: malicious role archive can cause ansible-galaxy to overwrite arbitrary files
Summary
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.
Severity ?
6.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • CWE-36 - Absolute Path Traversal
Assigner
References
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5701 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5758 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5115 vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2233810 issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.3 for RHEL 8 Unaffected: 0:2.14.11-1.el8ap , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.3::el9
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.3::el9
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.3::el8
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.3::el8
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_inside:2.3::el8
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_inside:2.3::el9
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    Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.3 for RHEL 9 Unaffected: 0:2.14.11-1.el9ap , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.3::el9
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.3::el9
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.3::el8
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.3::el8
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_inside:2.3::el8
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_inside:2.3::el9
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    Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8 Unaffected: 0:2.15.5-1.el8ap , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.4::el8
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.4::el9
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_inside:2.4::el9
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_inside:2.4::el8
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.4::el8
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.4::el9
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    Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9 Unaffected: 0:2.15.5-1.el9ap , < * (rpm)
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.4::el8
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.4::el9
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_inside:2.4::el9
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_inside:2.4::el8
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.4::el8
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.4::el9
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    Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 1.2     cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform
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