CVSS 3.1
6.5 mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NCVE-2023-5189
Medium (6.5) in redhat. EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 1.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 62% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-23, CWE-22
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- redhat:ansible_automation_platform
- redhat:satellite
Packages (OSV)
| Advisory | Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GHSA-55g2-vm3q-7w52 | PyPI | galaxy-importer | <=0.4.16 | no fix published |
| PYSEC-2026-1401 | PyPI | galaxy-importer | <=0.4.16 | no fix published |