CVE-2023-5115

Aliases:GHSA-jpvw-p8pr-9g2x
Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 10
Modified
Published: 18 Dec 2023, 13:43
Last modified:20 Nov 2025, 17:29

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
25/100
CVSS Score
6.3 MEDIUM
v3.1 (cve.org)
EPSS Score
0.66% LOW
1% probability -0.06%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

18 Dec 2023, 13:43
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
20 Nov 2025, 17:29
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•MEDIUM•Score: 6.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.66%• Percentile: 71%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-22•Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

    The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory.

  • CWE-36•Absolute Path Traversal

    The product uses external input to construct a pathname that should be within a restricted directory, but it does not properly neutralize absolute path sequences such as "/abs/path" that can resolve to a location that is outside of that directory.

Affected Systems

  • debian•debian_linux

    10.0

  • PyPI•ansible

    < 8.5.0

  • redhat•ansible_automation_platform

    1.2 | 2.3 | 2.4

  • redhat•ansible_developer

    1.0 | 1.1

  • redhat•ansible_inside

    1.1 | 1.2

References (9)