CVE-2023-5115: Debian Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 6.3. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 10.0 only
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform: version 1.2 only; version 2.3 only; version 2.4 only
• Red Hat Ansible Developer: version 1.0 only; version 1.1 only
• Red Hat Ansible Inside: version 1.1 only; version 1.2 only

Published 2023-12-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.