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Security Advisories: GSA_kwCzR0hTQS01NWcyLXZtM3EtN3c1Ms4AA3Lb

Ansible galaxy-importer Path Traversal vulnerability

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.

Permalink: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-55g2-vm3q-7w52
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Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: Moderate
Classification: General
Published: 14 days ago
Updated: 7 days ago

CVSS Score: 6.3
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N

Identifiers: GHSA-55g2-vm3q-7w52, CVE-2023-5189
References:

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5189
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5189
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2234387
• https://github.com/ansible/galaxy-importer/blob/2c5c7c05fdfb0835878234b36de32902c703616d/galaxy_importer/collection.py#L160-L165
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-55g2-vm3q-7w52

Affected Packages