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.
{
"github_reviewed": true,
"nvd_published_at": "2023-11-14T23:15:12Z",
"github_reviewed_at": "2023-11-16T20:16:05Z",
"severity": "MODERATE",
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-22",
"CWE-23"
]
}