BREW-MOLECULE-CVE-2023-5764 (GHSA-7J69-QFC3-2FQ9)

Vulnerability from osv_homebrew – Published: 2026-08-13 17:14 – Updated: 2026-09-17 17:54 – Source website
VLAI
Summary
Ansible template injection vulnerability
Details

A template injection flaw was found in Ansible where a user's controller internal templating operations may remove the unsafe designation from template data. This issue could allow an attacker to use a specially crafted file to introduce templating injection when supplying templating data.

Severity
6.6 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
References
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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "fix": "bump",
        "range_state": "fixed",
        "resource": "ansible-core",
        "resource_purl": "pkg:pypi/ansible-core@2.21.3",
        "upstream_fixed_in": "2.16.1"
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Homebrew",
        "name": "molecule",
        "purl": "pkg:brew/molecule"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "5.0.1"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "6.0.3"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "confidence": "high",
    "source": "matched",
    "strategy": "registry",
    "upstream_evidence": [
      {
        "ecosystem": "PyPI",
        "key": "pkg:pypi/ansible-core@2.21.3",
        "name": "ansible-core",
        "resource": "ansible-core",
        "strategy": "registry",
        "subject_version": "2.21.3"
      }
    ]
  },
  "details": "A template injection flaw was found in Ansible where a user\u0027s controller internal templating operations may remove the unsafe designation from template data. This issue could allow an attacker to use a specially crafted file to introduce templating injection when supplying templating data.",
  "id": "BREW-molecule-CVE-2023-5764",
  "modified": "2026-09-17T17:54:38Z",
  "published": "2026-08-13T17:14:17Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5764"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/270b39f6ff02511a2199505161218cbd1a5ae34f"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/7239d2d371bc6e274cbb7314e01431adce6ae25a"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/ansible/ansible/commit/fea130480d261ea5bf6fcd5cf19a348f1686ceb1"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7773"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5764"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2247629"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/ansible/ansible"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/X7Q6CHPVCHMZS5M7V22GOKFSXZAQ24EU"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.3",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "Ansible template injection vulnerability",
  "upstream": [
    "GHSA-7j69-qfc3-2fq9",
    "CVE-2023-5764",
    "PYSEC-2026-1122"
  ]
}



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