CVE-2023-5189

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    CVE-2023-5189

    Published: 14 Nov 2023Last Modified: 14 Mar 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7773, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1536, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2010, https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5189, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2234387

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    Events:

    Introduced- None
    Fixed -None

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    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

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