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SCA: security update for ansible (GHSA-jpvw-p8pr-9g2x)

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 416504

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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. (CVE-2023-5115)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jpvw-p8pr-9g2x

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 416504

Version: Revision 1.10

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 1/23/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.5

Percentile: 52.02

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-5115

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.3

Temporal Score: 5.5

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 12/28/2023

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/12/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-5115