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    CVE-2023-5189

    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.

    Published:Sep 26, 2023
    Last Modified:Nov 20, 2025
    EPS:Nov 14, 2023
    EPSS Score:0.00279
    CVSS Score:6.3

    Affected Products

    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Ansible Automation Platform
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Ansible Automation Platform Developer
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Ansible Automation Platform Inside
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Satellite
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Satellite Capsule
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Satellite Maintenance
    Vendor
    Redhat
    Product
    Satellite Utils

    Exploits

    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2234387https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2234387

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