CVE-2023-5115 (GCVE-0-2023-5115)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-12-18 13:43 – Updated: 2025-11-20 17:29
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Ansible: malicious role archive can cause ansible-galaxy to overwrite arbitrary files
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.
Severity
6.3 (Medium)
CWE
- CWE-36 - Absolute Path Traversal
Assigner
References
5 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5701 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5758 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
| https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5115 | vdb-entryx_refsource_REDHAT |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2233810 | issue-trackingx_refsource_REDHAT |
| https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023… | x_transferred |
Impacted products
5 products
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat | Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.3 for RHEL 8 |
Unaffected:
0:2.14.11-1.el8ap , < *
(rpm)
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||
| Red Hat | Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.3 for RHEL 9 |
Unaffected:
0:2.14.11-1.el9ap , < *
(rpm)
cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.3::el9 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.3::el9 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.3::el8 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.3::el8 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_inside:2.3::el8 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_inside:2.3::el9 |
||
| Red Hat | Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8 |
Unaffected:
0:2.15.5-1.el8ap , < *
(rpm)
cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.4::el8 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.4::el9 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_inside:2.4::el9 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_inside:2.4::el8 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.4::el8 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.4::el9 |
||
| Red Hat | Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9 |
Unaffected:
0:2.15.5-1.el9ap , < *
(rpm)
cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.4::el8 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.4::el9 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_inside:2.4::el9 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_inside:2.4::el8 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.4::el8 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.4::el9 |
||
| Red Hat | Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 1.2 |
cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform
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Date Public
2023-09-21 19:33
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Experimental. This forecast is provided for visualization only and may change without notice. Do not use it for operational decisions.
Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.
Sightings
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Nomenclature
- Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
- Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
- Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
- Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
- Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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