GHSA-55g2-vm3q-7w52

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    GHSA-55g2-vm3q-7w52

    Published: 15 Nov 2023Last Modified: 7 Jul 2026

    Summary: Ansible galaxy-importer Path Traversal vulnerability

    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://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5189, 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, https://github.com/ansible/galaxy-importer, https://github.com/ansible/galaxy-importer/blob/2c5c7c05fdfb0835878234b36de32902c703616d/galaxy_importer/collection.py#L160-L165

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: galaxy-importer

    Purl: pkg:pypi/galaxy-importer

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    0.1.0
    0.1.1
    0.1.2
    0.1.2.dev0
    0.1.3
    0.1.3b1
    0.1.3b10
    0.1.3b11
    0.1.3b2
    0.1.3b3
    0.1.3b4
    0.1.3b5
    0.1.3b6
    0.1.3b7
    0.1.3b8
    0.1.4
    0.1.5
    0.1.6
    0.1.7
    0.1.7a1
    0.1.8

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
    GHSA-55g2-vm3q-7w52 | CVE-DB