CVE-2023-5115

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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