Hub: insecure galaxy-importer tarfile extraction
CVE-2023-5189

6.3MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor

Red Hat
Status
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 For Rhel 8
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 For Rhel 9
Red Hat Satellite 6.14 For Rhel 8
Red Hat Satellite 6.15 For Rhel 8
Vendor
CVE Published:
14 November 2023

What is CVE-2023-5189?

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.

Affected Version(s)

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8 0:0.4.18-1.el8ap

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9 0:0.4.18-1.el9ap

Red Hat Satellite 6.14 for RHEL 8 0:0.4.18-2.el8pc

References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7773
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https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1536
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https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2010
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
6.3
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
Low
Integrity:
High
Availability:
Low
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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CVE-2023-5189 : Hub: insecure galaxy-importer tarfile extraction