Vulnerability CVE-2023-5189


Published: 2023-11-14   Modified: 2023-11-15

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:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5189
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2234387

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