CVE-2023-5115
CVSS 3.1 Score 6.3 of 10 (medium)
Details
Published Dec 18, 2023
Updated: Dec 29, 2023
CWE ID 22
Summary
CVE-2023-5115 is a new vulnerability affecting the Ansible automation platform. Attackers can exploit this absolute path traversal issue by crafting a malicious Ansible role. By doing so, they can manipulate the victim into executing the role, potentially overwriting files outside of the extraction path using a symlink. This could lead to unauthorized access or data theft. Users are urged to update their Ansible installations as soon as possible to mitigate this risk.
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Affected Products
- Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
- Debian
Affected Vendors
- Debian
- Red Hat
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