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CVE-2023-5189

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-5189 is a path traversal vulnerability in Ansible's galaxy importer, affecting Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Satellite. An attacker could craft a malicious tarball, leading to the creation of symlinks and potential file overwrites when the tarball is extracted. With a CVSS score of 6.5 (Medium), this vulnerability requires user interaction (UI:R) but has low attack complexity (AC:L) and could result in high integrity impact (I:H). There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:redhat:satellite:6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
0.83%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
54.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0083 is in the 63rd percentile among its peer group of 26,236 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 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 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8Fixed in: python3x-galaxy-importer-0:0.4.18-1.el8ap
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9Fixed in: python-galaxy-importer-0:0.4.18-1.el9ap
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 6.14 for RHEL 8Fixed in: python-galaxy-importer-0:0.4.18-2.el8pc
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redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Satellite 6.15 for RHEL 8Fixed in: python-galaxy-importer-0:0.4.19-2.el8pc
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redhatvendor investigatingvia nvd_reference
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Vendor Advisories (2)

pipGHSA-55g2-vm3q-7w52medium

Ansible galaxy-importer Path Traversal vulnerability

Nov 15, 2023
redhatCVE-2023-5189Moderate

Hub: insecure galaxy-importer tarfile extraction

Sep 26, 2023

References

access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2023:7773
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2024:1536
access.redhat.com / errata/RHSA-2024:2010
access.redhat.com / security/cve/CVE-2023-5189
Vendor Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
ExploitIssue TrackingVendor Advisory