Cyber Resilience

CVE-2023-5115

Medium

Published: 18 December 2023

Published
18 December 2023
Modified
06 December 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 6.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0066 71.6th percentile
Risk Priority 13 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2023-5115 is a medium-severity Absolute Path Traversal (CWE-36) vulnerability in Redhat Enterprise Linux. Its CVSS base score is 6.3 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 28.4% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

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…

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the extraction path.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

redhat
ansible automation platform
1.2, 2.3, 2.4
redhat
ansible inside
1.1, 1.2
redhat
ansible developer
1.0, 1.1
debian
debian linux
10.0

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

addresses: CWE-22

Validates pathnames and filenames to prevent traversal outside intended directories.

References