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.
{
"github_reviewed": true,
"severity": "MODERATE",
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-22",
"CWE-36"
],
"nvd_published_at": "2023-12-18T14:15:10Z",
"github_reviewed_at": "2023-12-29T18:19:35Z"
}