Hub: insecure galaxy-importer tarfile extraction (Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8)
At a glance
- Source
- NVD
- EPSS
- EPSS 0.98 % · percentile 62 ()
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Published
- Updated
- Assigner
- redhat
- NVD status
- Modified
Description
A path traversal vulnerability exists in Ansible when extracting tarballs. An attacker could craft a malicious tarball so that when using the galaxy importer of Ansible Automation Hub, a symlink could be dropped on the disk, resulting in files being overwritten.
Weaknesses (CWE)
- CWE-23 — Relative Path Traversal
- CWE-22 — Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
References
Scores
| Version | Score | Vector | Scored by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM 6.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N | redhat |
| CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM 6.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N | NVD · secalert@redhat.com (Secondary) |
| CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM 6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N | NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary) |
Advisories
- GHSA-55g2-vm3q-7w52 — Ansible galaxy-importer Path Traversal vulnerability
- PYSEC-2026-1401 — Ansible galaxy-importer Path Traversal vulnerability
European references
- ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2023-2886
- GCVE · GCVE-0-2023-5189
CERT-FR advisories
- CERTFR-2025-AVI-0756 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans les produits VMware · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
Affected configurations (NVD CPE)
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*cpe:2.3:a:redhat:satellite:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Affected products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
| Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8 | unaffected 0:0.4.18-1.el8ap < * |
| Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9 | unaffected 0:0.4.18-1.el9ap < * |
| Red Hat · Red Hat Satellite 6.14 for RHEL 8 | unaffected 0:0.4.18-2.el8pc < * |
| Red Hat · Red Hat Satellite 6.14 for RHEL 8 | unaffected 0:0.4.18-2.el8pc < * |
| Red Hat · Red Hat Satellite 6.15 for RHEL 8 | unaffected 0:0.4.19-2.el8pc < * |
| Red Hat · Red Hat Satellite 6.15 for RHEL 8 | unaffected 0:0.4.19-2.el8pc < * |
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5) | CVE Program Terms of Use |
| EPSS (FIRST.org) | FIRST — attribution requested |
| ENISA EUVD | ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged |
| CERT-FR (ANSSI) | Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0 |
| NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds | Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD |