CVE-2023-5189 MEDIUM

CVE-2023-5189: Hub: insecure galaxy-importer tarfile extraction

Weakness CWE-23
Published November 14, 2023
Last update November 20, 2025
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CVSS base score

6.3/10
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction Required
Confidentiality Low
Integrity High

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N

What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

November 14, 2023 CVE published
November 20, 2025 Record updated