PYSEC-2026-1401

Vulnerability from pysec - Published: 2026-07-07 11:45 - Updated: 2026-07-07 17:24
VLAI
Details

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.

Severity
6.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
Impacted products
Name purl
galaxy-importer pkg:pypi/galaxy-importer
Aliases
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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "PyPI",
        "name": "galaxy-importer",
        "purl": "pkg:pypi/galaxy-importer"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "last_affected": "0.4.16"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "0.1.0",
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      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2023-5189",
    "GHSA-55g2-vm3q-7w52"
  ],
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "PYSEC-2026-1401",
  "modified": "2026-07-07T17:24:11.176670Z",
  "published": "2026-07-07T11:45:26.817403Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5189"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7773"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1536"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2010"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5189"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2234387"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://github.com/ansible/galaxy-importer"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/ansible/galaxy-importer/blob/2c5c7c05fdfb0835878234b36de32902c703616d/galaxy_importer/collection.py#L160-L165"
    },
    {
      "type": "PACKAGE",
      "url": "https://pypi.org/project/galaxy-importer"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-55g2-vm3q-7w52"
    }
  ],
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ],
  "summary": "Ansible galaxy-importer Path Traversal vulnerability"
}


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