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FKIE_CVE-2023-5115

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2023-12-18 14:15 - Updated: 2026-06-17 06:47
Severity
6.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
6.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5701Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5758Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5115Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2233810Issue Tracking
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5701Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5758Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5115Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2233810Issue Tracking
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00018.html
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
redhat ansible_automation_platform 1.2
redhat ansible_automation_platform 2.3
redhat ansible_automation_platform 2.4
redhat enterprise_linux 8.0
redhat enterprise_linux 9.0
redhat ansible_inside 1.1
redhat ansible_inside 1.2
redhat enterprise_linux 8.0
redhat enterprise_linux 9.0
redhat ansible_developer 1.0
redhat ansible_developer 1.1
redhat enterprise_linux 8.0
redhat enterprise_linux 9.0
debian debian_linux 10.0
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