CVE-2023-5115

Advisory

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.

Affected package

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

This vulnerability has no description

Resources

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5115
• https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/ddf0311c63287e2d5334770377350c1e0cbfff28
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2023-5115
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2233810
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-5115