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ansible, ansible-core — security advisory
An absolute path traversal attack exists in the Ansible automation platform. This flaw allows an attacker to craft a malicious Ansible role and make the victim execute the role. A symlink can be used to overwrite a file outside of the extraction path.
- Products
- ansible, ansible-core
- Affected versions
- 2.14.10-1, 2.14.11-1, 2.14.11-2, 2.14.13-1, 2.14.3-1, 2.14.6-1, 2.14.7-1, 2.14.8-1, 2.14.9-1, 2.14.9-2
- Fixed versions
- 2.14.11-1, 2.14.16-0+deb12u1, 5.4.0-1
- CVEs
- CVE-2023-5115
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 16:00 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An absolute path traversal attack exists in the Ansible automation platform. This flaw allows an attacker to craft a malicious Ansible role and make the victim execute the role. A symlink can be used to overwrite a file outside of the extraction path.
osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2023-5115
ansible
Fixed versions: 5.4.0-1
ansible
Fixed versions: 5.4.0-1
ansible
Fixed versions: 5.4.0-1
ansible-core
Fixed versions: 2.14.16-0+deb12u1
ansible-core
Fixed versions: 2.14.11-1
ansible-core
Fixed versions: 2.14.11-1
Complete source record
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"2.14.8-1",
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"modified": "2026-10-26T18:02:36.310315903Z",
"provider": "osv",
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 456352,
"published_at": "2023-12-18T14:15:10.5+00:00"
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