GHSA-55g2-vm3q-7w52
First published: Wed Nov 15 2023(Updated: )
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.
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| pip/galaxy-importer | <=0.4.16 |
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Reference Links
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5189
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5189
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2234387
- https://github.com/ansible/galaxy-importer/blob/2c5c7c05fdfb0835878234b36de32902c703616d/galaxy_importer/collection.py#L160-L165
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-55g2-vm3q-7w52 (Advisory)
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the vulnerability ID?
The vulnerability ID is GHSA-55g2-vm3q-7w52.
What is the title of the vulnerability?
The title of the vulnerability is 'A path traversal vulnerability exists in Ansible when extracting tarballs.'
What is the affected software?
The affected software is pip/galaxy-importer version 0.4.16.
What is the severity of the vulnerability?
The severity of the vulnerability is medium with a CVSS score of 6.3.
How can an attacker exploit this vulnerability?
An attacker can exploit this vulnerability by crafting a malicious tarball that drops a symlink on the disk when using the galaxy importer of Ansible Automation Hub, resulting in file overwrites.
- collector/github-advisory-latest
- alias/GHSA-55g2-vm3q-7w52
- alias/CVE-2023-5189
- collector/github-advisory
- package-manager/pip