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Vulnerability record · CVE-2023-5189 · published 14 November 2023

CVE-2023-5189: Redhat ansible automation platform relative path traversal vulnerability

Redhat · Ansible Automation Platform

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.

6.5 CVSS 3.1 Medium EPSS 0.98% · top 39.0% CWE-23 · Relative path traversalCWE-22 · Path traversal
6.5CVSS 3.1 base score
0.98%EPSS exploitation probability, 30 days
NoNot in CISA KEV
2Affected product versions listed by NVD
10References, 2 tagged exploit
17 Jun 2026Last modified by NVD

Description

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.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Affected products

2 vulnerable configurations from NVD's CPE data, grouped by vendor and product.

References

LinkTags
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7773
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1536
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2010
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5189 Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2234387 ExploitIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7773
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1536
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2010
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5189 Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2234387 ExploitIssue TrackingVendor Advisory

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Source: NIST National Vulnerability Database (record CVE-2023-5189), CISA KEV, FIRST EPSS (scores of 2026-10-05). This page is refreshed as NVD updates the record.