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CVE-2023-5189

Hub: insecure galaxy-importer tarfile extraction

Published: Nov 14, 2023Updated: Dec 6, 2024 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSA BDUCWE-23
6.3MEDIUM
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
0.8%
Top 45.8%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available
Self-Check
Not available

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.

No summary for this CVE yet.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:LUI:RS:UC:LI:HA:N
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:LPrivileges Required
Low
UI:RUser Interaction
Required
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:LConfidentiality
Low
I:HIntegrity
High
A:NAvailability
None
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Weaknesses

CWE-23CWE-22

Affected Products

Red Hat Inc.
commercial·USaka redhat, Red Hat
Red Hat SatelliteOn-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
Red Hat Ansible Automation PlatformOn-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
ansible automation platformOn-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
satelliteOn-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8On-premDev Tool
DevTools & CI / ci-cd
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9On-premDev Tool
DevTools & CI / ci-cd
Red Hat Satellite 6.14 for RHEL 8On-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
Red Hat Satellite 6.15 for RHEL 8On-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
PyPI
package-ecosystem
galaxy-importer
OSS Libraries

Exploitability

Official Patch Available

Attack Graph

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MITRE ATT&CK

2 techniques
Collection
Discovery
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References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5189
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2234387
bugzilla.redhat.com
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7773
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