CVSS 3.1
6.3 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:NCVE-2023-5115
Medium (6.3). EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Fixed in ansible 8.5.0.
An absolute path traversal attack exists in the Ansible automation platform. This flaw allows an attacker to craft a malicious Ansible role and make the victim execute the role. A symlink can be used to overwrite a file outside of the extraction path.
Severity
- EPSS
- 1.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 63% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-36, CWE-22
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- debian:debian_linux
- redhat:ansible_automation_platform
- redhat:ansible_developer
- redhat:ansible_inside
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-jpvw-p8pr-9g2x | PyPI | ansible | <8.5.0 | 8.5.0 |
| PYSEC-2026-1120 | PyPI | ansible | <8.5.0 | 8.5.0 |