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 Software | Affected Version | How 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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Reference Links
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5115
- 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
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00018.html
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/1e930684bc0a76ec3d094cd326738ad26416541c
- https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/blob/16d36538b96c65d9e0e28d89781361b69857ac0e/8/CHANGELOG-v8.rst#L221
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jpvw-p8pr-9g2x (Advisory)
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81780
- collector/github-advisory-latest
- alias/GHSA-jpvw-p8pr-9g2x
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