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CVE-2023-5115: Ansible: malicious role archive can cause ansible-galaxy to overwrite arbitrary files

First published: Wed Aug 23 2023(Updated: )

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.

Credit: secalert@redhat.com secalert@redhat.com

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
pip/ansible<8.5.0
8.5.0
All of
Any of
Redhat Ansible Automation Platform=1.2
Redhat Ansible Automation Platform=2.3
Redhat Ansible Automation Platform=2.4
Any of
Redhat Enterprise Linux=8.0
Redhat Enterprise Linux=9.0
All of
Any of
Redhat Ansible Inside=1.1
Redhat Ansible Inside=1.2
Any of
Redhat Enterprise Linux=8.0
Redhat Enterprise Linux=9.0
All of
Any of
Redhat Ansible Developer=1.0
Redhat Ansible Developer=1.1
Any of
Redhat Enterprise Linux=8.0
Redhat Enterprise Linux=9.0
Debian Debian Linux=10.0
redhat/ansible<2.14.11
2.14.11

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