Directory Traversal Affecting ansible package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.25% (49th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-ANSIBLE-9836239
  • published28 Apr 2025
  • disclosed21 Sept 2023

Introduced: 21 Sep 2023

CVE-2023-5115  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-36  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:10 ansible.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ansible package and not the ansible package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

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 Base Scores

version 3.1