CVE-2023-5115

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    CVE-2023-5115

    Published: 18 Dec 2023Last Modified: 7 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00018.html, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5701, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5758, https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5115, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2233810

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    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
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    Changed
    Confidentiality
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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