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Ansible symlink attack vulnerability

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Dec 28, 2023 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Dec 6, 2024

Package

pip ansible (pip)

Affected versions

< 8.5.0

Patched versions

8.5.0

Description

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.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Dec 18, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Dec 28, 2023
Reviewed Dec 29, 2023
Last updated Dec 6, 2024

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
High
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N

EPSS score

0.067%
(31st percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2023-5115

GHSA ID

GHSA-jpvw-p8pr-9g2x

Source code

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