6.5
MEDIUM
CVE-2023-5189
Ansible Tarball Path Traversal Information Disclosure Vulnerability
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.

INFO

Published Date :

Nov. 14, 2023, 11:15 p.m.

Last Modified :

Dec. 6, 2024, 11:15 a.m.

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

3.6

Exploitability Score :

2.8
Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2023-5189 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Redhat satellite
2 Redhat ansible_automation_platform

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The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2023-5189 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Dec. 06, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CWE CWE-23
  • CVE Modified by af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

    Nov. 21, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7773
    Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1536
    Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2010
    Added Reference https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5189
    Added Reference https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2234387
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Apr. 25, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference Red Hat, Inc. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2010 [No types assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Mar. 27, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference Red Hat, Inc. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1536 [No types assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Dec. 13, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference Red Hat, Inc. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7773 [No types assigned]
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Nov. 21, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
    Changed Reference Type https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5189 No Types Assigned https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5189 Vendor Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2234387 No Types Assigned https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2234387 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
    Added CWE NIST CWE-22
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* *cpe:2.3:a:redhat:satellite:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
  • CVE Received by [email protected]

    Nov. 14, 2023

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added 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.
    Added Reference Red Hat, Inc. https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5189 [No types assigned]
    Added Reference Red Hat, Inc. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2234387 [No types assigned]
    Added CVSS V3.1 Red Hat, Inc. AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

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Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

0.13 }} 0.02%

score

0.49430

percentile

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