CVE-2023-5189
moderate-risk
Published 2023-11-14
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.
Do I need to act?
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0.64% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
6
CVSS 6.3/10
Medium
NETWORK
/ LOW complexity
Affected Products (2)
Affected Vendors
References (10)
Vendor Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5189
Vendor Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5189
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/ 100
moderate-risk
Severity
23/34 · High
Exploitability
2/34 · Minimal
Exposure
7/34 · Low