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CVE-2023-5115

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-5115 is an absolute path traversal vulnerability in the Ansible automation platform, affecting various Debian and Red Hat Ansible products. An attacker can exploit this flaw by crafting a malicious Ansible role, allowing them to overwrite files outside the intended extraction path via a symlink. With a CVSS score of 6.3 (Medium), this vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) and low privileges (PR:L) but can lead to high integrity impact (I:H). Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.4CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_inside:1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
1.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_inside:1.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

6.3MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
2.1
Impact Score
4.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.86%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
54.7%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0086 is in the 89th percentile among its peer group of 15,224 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (18)

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 17822-17084Fixed in: 2.17.0-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 18218-16823Fixed in: 2.14.11-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 19710-17086Fixed in: 2.14.18-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 17445-17086Fixed in: 2.14.18-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 ansible 2.14.11-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 2.14.11-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: cbl2 ansible 2.14.12-2 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 2.14.18-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 19716-17084Fixed in: 2.17.0-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: azl3 ansible 2.15.3-1 on Azure Linux 3.0Fixed in: 2.17.0-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: azl3 ansible 2.17.0-1 on Azure Linux 3.0Fixed in: 2.17.0-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Azure Linux 3.0 ARMFixed in: 2.17.0-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Azure Linux 3.0 x64Fixed in: 2.17.0-1
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: ansibleFixed in: 8.5.0
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9Fixed in: ansible-core-0:2.15.5-1.el9ap
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.3 for RHEL 8Fixed in: ansible-core-0:2.14.11-1.el8ap
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.3 for RHEL 9Fixed in: ansible-core-0:2.14.11-1.el9ap
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8Fixed in: ansible-core-0:2.15.5-1.el8ap
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redhatvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
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redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 1.2Fixed in: ansible

Vendor Advisories (4)

microsoft2024-Jun/CVE-2023-5115

CVE-2023-5115

Jun 11, 2024
pipGHSA-jpvw-p8pr-9g2xmedium

Ansible symlink attack vulnerability

Dec 28, 2023
microsoft2023-Dec/CVE-2023-5115Moderate

Ansible: malicious role archive can cause ansible-galaxy to overwrite arbitrary files

Dec 12, 2023
redhatCVE-2023-5115Moderate

Ansible: malicious role archive can cause ansible-galaxy to overwrite arbitrary files

Sep 21, 2023

References

lists.debian.org / debian-lts-announce/2023/12/msg00018.html
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2023:5701
Vendor Advisory
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2023:5758
Vendor Advisory
access.redhat.com / security/cve/CVE-2023-5115
Vendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
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