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.
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.
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat | Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8 | 0:0.4.18-1.el8ap |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9 | 0:0.4.18-1.el9ap |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Satellite 6.14 for RHEL 8 | 0:0.4.18-2.el8pc |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Satellite 6.14 for RHEL 8 | 0:0.4.18-2.el8pc |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Satellite 6.15 for RHEL 8 | 0:0.4.19-2.el8pc |
| Red Hat | Red Hat Satellite 6.15 for RHEL 8 | 0:0.4.19-2.el8pc |
Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.
For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.
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No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.