CVE-2023-5189: Ansible galaxy-importer Path Traversal vulnerability
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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
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7773
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1536
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2010
- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5189
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2234387
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-55g2-vm3q-7w52
- github.com/ansible/galaxy-importer
- github.com/ansible/galaxy-importer/blob/2c5c7c05fdfb0835878234b36de32902c703616d/galaxy_importer/collection.py
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5189
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