Ansible: malicious role archive can cause ansible-galaxy to overwrite arbitrary files
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 6.3epss 0.9%
exploitation probability
0.9%top 45% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
Affected products
Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 1.2Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.3 for RHEL 8Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.3 for RHEL 9Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9