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CVE-2023-5189

Hub: insecure galaxy-importer tarfile extraction

MEDIUM
6.5
CVSS Score
Published: November 14, 2023 at 10:57 PM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 06:47 AM UTC
2 products affected across 1 vendorSatelliteAnsible Automation Platform

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Severity
MEDIUM6.5
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1.0%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

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

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Ansible Automation Platform· Red Hatrpm
95%
2.0
Vendor states this is fixed in 0:0.4.18-1.el8ap (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 0:0.4.18-1.el9ap (unaffected)
Satellite· Red Hatrpm
95%
6.0
Vendor states this is fixed in 0:0.4.18-2.el8pc (unaffected)
Vendor states this is fixed in 0:0.4.19-2.el8pc (unaffected)

References (5)

Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7773
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1536
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2010
VDB Entryx_refsource_REDHATVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5189
Issue Trackingx_refsource_REDHATExploitVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2234387

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatablePartial impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

6.5MEDIUM[email protected]
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
NONE
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
NONE
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-23CWE-22

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