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Ansible galaxy-importer Path Traversal vulnerability

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Nov 15, 2023 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Apr 25, 2024

Package

pip galaxy-importer (pip)

Affected versions

<= 0.4.16

Patched versions

None

Description

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Nov 14, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Nov 15, 2023
Reviewed Nov 16, 2023
Last updated Apr 25, 2024

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
High
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N

EPSS score

0.064%
(29th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2023-5189

GHSA ID

GHSA-55g2-vm3q-7w52

Source code

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