CVE-2023-5189

2023-11-1400:00:00

ubuntu.com

vulnerability

ansible

path traversal

symlink attacks

crafted tarballs

disk overwrite

6.5 Medium

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

0.001 Low

EPSS

Percentile

23.5%

JSON

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.

Bugs

<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2234387>

Notes

Author	Note
sbeattie	core ansible binaries were split into ansible-base, which got renamed to ansible-core

OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu18.04noarchansible< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu20.04noarchansible< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu22.04noarchansible< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu23.10noarchansible< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu24.04noarchansible< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu14.04noarchansible< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu16.04noarchansible< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu22.04noarchansible-core< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu23.10noarchansible-core< anyUNKNOWN
ubuntu24.04noarchansible-core< anyUNKNOWN

OS	Version	Architecture	Package	Version	Filename
ubuntu	18.04	noarch	ansible	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	20.04	noarch	ansible	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	22.04	noarch	ansible	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	23.10	noarch	ansible	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	24.04	noarch	ansible	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	14.04	noarch	ansible	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	16.04	noarch	ansible	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	22.04	noarch	ansible-core	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	23.10	noarch	ansible-core	< any	UNKNOWN
ubuntu	24.04	noarch	ansible-core	< any	UNKNOWN