CVE-2023-5189

Hub: insecure galaxy-importer tarfile extraction

State: Published
Severity: 6.3 Medium
Published: Nov 14, 2023
Updated: Nov 20, 2025
Reserved: Sep 26, 2023

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.3 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N	redhat

Weaknesses

CWE-23 Relative Path Traversal

Affected Products

Product	Versions
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8Red Hat	0:0.4.18-1.el8ap and laterNot affected
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9Red Hat	0:0.4.18-1.el9ap and laterNot affected
Red Hat Satellite 6.14 for RHEL 8Red Hat	0:0.4.18-2.el8pc and laterNot affected
Red Hat Satellite 6.14 for RHEL 8Red Hat	0:0.4.18-2.el8pc and laterNot affected
Red Hat Satellite 6.15 for RHEL 8Red Hat	0:0.4.19-2.el8pc and laterNot affected
Red Hat Satellite 6.15 for RHEL 8Red Hat	0:0.4.19-2.el8pc and laterNot affected

References

RHSA-2023:7773vendor-advisory
RHSA-2024:1536vendor-advisory
RHSA-2024:2010vendor-advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5189vdb-entry
RHBZ#2234387issue-tracking

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