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CVE-2023-5115

Public on 2023-09-22
Modified on 2024-02-12
Description

The upstream report describes this issue as follows:

When installing a maliciously created Ansible role using 'ansible-galaxy role install', arbitrary files the user has access to can be overwritten. The malicious role must contain a symlink with an absolute path to the target file, followed by a file of the same name (as the symlink) with the contents to write to the target.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
6.5
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 2023 ansible-core 2024-02-01 17:56 ALAS2023-2024-505

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
NVD CVSSv3 6.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N