Hub: insecure galaxy-importer tarfile extraction

6.3 CVSS

Vulnerability Description

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.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

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Affected Vendor

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Affected Software

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9, Red Hat Satellite 6.14 for RHEL 8, Red Hat Satellite 6.15 for RHEL 8

Vulnerable Versions:

0:0.4.18-1.el8ap, 0:0.4.18-1.el9ap, 0:0.4.18-2.el8pc, 0:0.4.19-2.el8pc