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CVE-2023-5764

23
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-5764 is a template injection vulnerability in Ansible that allows a malicious actor to introduce templating injection via a specially crafted file, affecting Fedora Project and Red Hat products. This high-severity flaw (CVSS 7.8) has a local attack vector with low complexity, potentially leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 2.14.12CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 2.15.0, < 2.15.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.16.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible:2.16.0:-:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.16.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible:2.16.0:beta1:*:*:*:*:*:*
2.16.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible:2.16.0:beta2:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.1HIGH

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

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.54%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
42.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-26
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0054 is in the 82nd percentile among its peer group of 16,994 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (16)

microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: CBL Mariner 2.0 ARMFixed in: 2.14.12-2
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Azure Linux 3.0 x64Fixed in: 2.17.0-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Azure Linux 3.0 ARMFixed in: 2.17.0-1
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: cbl2 ansible 2.14.12-2 on CBL Mariner 2.0Fixed in: 2.14.12-2
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 17445-16823Fixed in: 2.14.12-2
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: 17822-17084Fixed in: 2.17.0-1
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: CBL Mariner 2.0 x64Fixed in: 2.14.12-2
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: ansible-coreFixed in: 2.16.1
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: ansible-coreFixed in: 2.15.8
pippatch availablevia ghsa
Product: ansible-coreFixed in: 2.14.12
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9Fixed in: ansible-core-1:2.15.8-1.el9ap
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8Fixed in: ansible-core-1:2.15.8-1.el8ap
View patch
redhatpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch

Vendor Advisories (4)

microsoft2024-Sep/CVE-2023-5764

CVE-2023-5764

Sep 10, 2024
pipGHSA-7j69-qfc3-2fq9medium

Ansible template injection vulnerability

Dec 13, 2023
microsoft2023-Dec/CVE-2023-5764Important

Ansible: template injection

Dec 12, 2023
redhatCVE-2023-5764Moderate

ansible: Template Injection

Nov 2, 2023

References

lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/[email protected]/message/X7Q6CHPVCHMZS5M7V22GOKFSXZAQ24EU
security.netapp.com / advisory/ntap-20241025-0001
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2023:7773
Vendor Advisory
access.redhat.com / security/cve/CVE-2023-5764
Vendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory