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.

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 files being overwritten.

Published 2023-11-14 · last modified 2026-06-17.

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.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.010 (62.0th percentile), scored 2026-10-24.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 62nd percentile — 62.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.008 · newest: 0.010 · change: +0.001

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
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform — versions 2.0
Red Hat Satellite — versions 6.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds

References

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7773 (vendor-advisory)
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1536 (vendor-advisory)
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2010 (vendor-advisory)
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5189 (vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (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.