| Name | CVE-2023-5115 |
| Description | 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DLA-3695-1 |
| Debian Bugs | 1053693 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| ansible (PTS) | buster | 2.7.7+dfsg-1+deb10u1 | vulnerable |
| buster (security) | 2.7.7+dfsg-1+deb10u2 | fixed |
| bullseye | 2.10.7+merged+base+2.10.8+dfsg-1 | vulnerable |
| bookworm | 7.3.0+dfsg-1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 9.5.1+dfsg-1 | fixed |
| ansible-core (PTS) | bookworm | 2.14.3-1 | vulnerable |
| sid, trixie | 2.16.6-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[bookworm] - ansible-core <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - ansible-core <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - ansible <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2233810
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/81780
https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/ddf0311c63287e2d5334770377350c1e0cbfff28
ansible-core was split off from src:ansible with 4.6.0-1 in experimental/5.4.0-1 in sid