CVE-2023-5189
Hub: insecure galaxy-importer tarfile extraction
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 49 days later
· 49 days later
Published
- 2 years later
· 2 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| redhatCNA (assigner) | 3.1 | Medium6.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Medium6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.98% · top 37% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 6.3.
Weakness
Affected products
Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8
- unaffected 0:0.4.18-1.el8ap – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9
- unaffected 0:0.4.18-1.el9ap – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Satellite 6.14 for RHEL 8
- unaffected 0:0.4.18-2.el8pc – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Satellite 6.14 for RHEL 8
- unaffected 0:0.4.18-2.el8pc – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Satellite 6.15 for RHEL 8
- unaffected 0:0.4.19-2.el8pc – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Satellite 6.15 for RHEL 8
- unaffected 0:0.4.19-2.el8pc – < *
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIgalaxy-importerGHSA-55g2-vm3q-7w52 (opens in a new tab)
References (5)
- RHSA-2023:7773 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2024:1536 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHSA-2024:2010 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5189 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHBZ#2234387 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-55g2-vm3q-7w52 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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