Ansible symlink attack vulnerability
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.
02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE
Affected packages
332 explicit affected versions
332 explicit affected versions
03 / CONNECTIONS
Connected vulnerabilities
04 / EVIDENCE
Source records
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.
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.
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.
05 / REFERENCES
Further evidence
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5701
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:5758
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5115
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2233810
- https://github.com/ansible-community/ansible-build-data/blob/16d36538b96c65d9e0e28d89781361b69857ac0e/8/CHANGELOG-v8.rst#L221
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible
- https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/1e930684bc0a76ec3d094cd326738ad26416541c
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00018.html
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5115
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-jpvw-p8pr-9g2x
- https://pypi.org/project/ansible