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CVE-2023-5189

MEDIUM · CVSS 6.3 EPSS 0.83%

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2023-11-14 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a medium severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 6.3. See the original NVD description below for full technical details.

CVE
CVE-2023-5189
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS
6.3
EPSS
0.83%

Original NVD 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.

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