CVE-2023-5115
Published: 18 December 2023
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.
Notes
| Author | Note |
|---|---|
| sbeattie | core ansible binaries were split into ansible-base, which got renamed to ansible-core |
Priority
Status
| Package | Release | Status |
|---|---|---|
|
ansible Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
bionic |
Needs triage
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| focal |
Needs triage
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| jammy |
Needs triage
|
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| lunar |
Ignored
(end of life, was needs-triage)
|
|
| mantic |
Needs triage
|
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| trusty |
Needs triage
|
|
| upstream |
Needs triage
|
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| xenial |
Needs triage
|
|
|
ansible-core Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian |
bionic |
Does not exist
|
| focal |
Does not exist
|
|
| jammy |
Needs triage
|
|
| lunar |
Ignored
(end of life, was needs-triage)
|
|
| mantic |
Needs triage
|
|
| trusty |
Does not exist
|
|
| upstream |
Needs triage
|
|
| xenial |
Does not exist
|
Severity score breakdown
| Parameter | Value |
|---|---|
| Base score | 6.3 |
| Attack vector | Network |
| Attack complexity | Low |
| Privileges required | Low |
| User interaction | Required |
| Scope | Unchanged |
| Confidentiality | Low |
| Integrity impact | High |
| Availability impact | None |
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N |