CVE-2023-5764
Ansible: template injection
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- redhat
Description
A template injection flaw was found in Ansible where a user's controller internal templating operations may remove the unsafe designation from template data. This issue could allow an attacker to use a specially crafted file to introduce templating injection when supplying templating data.
Timeline
ID reserved
By redhat
- 48 days later
· 48 days later
Published
- 3 years later
· 3 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 | High7.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | High7.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.57% · top 52% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
- CISA SSVC
- Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: total
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.1.
Weakness
Affected products
Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8
- unaffected 1:2.15.8-1.el8ap – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8
- unaffected 1:2.15.8-1.el8ap – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8
- unaffected 1:2.15.8-1.el8ap – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9
- unaffected 1:2.15.8-1.el9ap – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9
- unaffected 1:2.15.8-1.el9ap – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9
- unaffected 1:2.15.8-1.el9ap – < *
Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 1.2
All versions: affected
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPIansible-coreGHSA-7j69-qfc3-2fq9 (opens in a new tab)
References (5)
- RHSA-2023:7773 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5764 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- RHBZ#2247629 (opens in a new tab)issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/X7Q6CHPVCHMZS5M7V22GOKFSXZAQ24EU/ (opens in a new tab)x_transferred
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20241025-0001/ (opens in a new tab)
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-7j69-qfc3-2fq9 (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2023-5764)Record last updated .