cve-2023-5115
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-12-18 13:43
Modified
2024-12-06 11:10
Severity ?
6.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
Summary
An absolute path traversal attack exists in the Ansible automation platform. This flaw allows an attacker to craft a malicious Ansible role and make the victim execute the role. A symlink can be used to overwrite a file outside of the extraction path.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5701Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5758Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5115Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2233810Issue Tracking
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5701Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5758Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5115Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2233810Issue Tracking
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00018.html
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.3 for RHEL 8 Unaffected: 0:2.14.11-1.el8ap   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.3::el8
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    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_inside:2.3::el9
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.3::el9
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   Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.3 for RHEL 9 Unaffected: 0:2.14.11-1.el9ap   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.3::el8
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    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.3::el9
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_inside:2.3::el8
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_inside:2.3::el9
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.3::el9
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   Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8 Unaffected: 0:2.15.5-1.el8ap   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_inside:2.4::el8
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    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_inside:2.4::el9
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.4::el9
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.4::el8
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   Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9 Unaffected: 0:2.15.5-1.el9ap   < *
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_inside:2.4::el8
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    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.4::el9
    cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.4::el8
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   Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 1.2     cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform
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