Path Traversal in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 For Rhel 8
CVE-2023-5189
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 f…
EPSS: 0.008 (53.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 6.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N.
Affected products
- Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 For Rhel 8 — versions 0:0.4.18-1.el8ap
- Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 For Rhel 9 — versions 0:0.4.18-1.el9ap
- Red Hat Satellite 6.14 For Rhel 8 — versions 0:0.4.18-2.el8pc
- Red Hat Satellite 6.15 For Rhel 8 — versions 0:0.4.19-2.el8pc
- Redhat Ansible_automation_platform — versions 2.0
- Redhat Satellite — versions 6.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, vendor-advisory)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, issue-tracking, Exploit, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2023-5189?
- CVE-2023-5189 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 For Rhel 8, classified under Relative Path Traversal. CVSS score: 6.3/10. Published 2023-11-14.
- How severe is CVE-2023-5189?
- Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.3 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2023-5189 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.