CVE-2023-5115

medium

Description

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

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00018.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2233810

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5115

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5758

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5701

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-12-18

Updated: 2023-12-29

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:C/A:N

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N

Severity: Medium