id: PYSEC-2026-1401
published: "2026-07-07T11:45:26.817403Z"
modified: "2026-07-07T17:24:11.176670Z"
aliases:
- CVE-2023-5189
- GHSA-55g2-vm3q-7w52
summary: Ansible galaxy-importer Path Traversal vulnerability
details: 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.
affected:
- package:
    name: galaxy-importer
    ecosystem: PyPI
    purl: pkg:pypi/galaxy-importer
  ranges:
  - type: ECOSYSTEM
    events:
    - introduced: "0"
    - last_affected: 0.4.16
  versions:
  - 0.1.0
  - 0.1.1
  - 0.1.2
  - 0.1.2.dev0
  - 0.1.3
  - 0.1.3b1
  - 0.1.3b10
  - 0.1.3b11
  - 0.1.3b2
  - 0.1.3b3
  - 0.1.3b4
  - 0.1.3b5
  - 0.1.3b6
  - 0.1.3b7
  - 0.1.3b8
  - 0.1.4
  - 0.1.5
  - 0.1.6
  - 0.1.7
  - 0.1.7a1
  - 0.1.8
  - 0.2.0
  - 0.2.1
  - 0.2.11
  - 0.2.12
  - 0.2.13
  - 0.2.14
  - 0.2.15
  - 0.2.16
  - 0.2.1a1
  - 0.2.2
  - 0.2.2a1
  - 0.2.2a2
  - 0.2.2a3
  - 0.2.2a4
  - 0.2.3
  - 0.2.4
  - 0.2.5
  - 0.2.5a1
  - 0.2.5a2
  - 0.2.6
  - 0.2.7
  - 0.2.8
  - 0.2.8rc1
  - 0.2.8rc10
  - 0.2.8rc11
  - 0.2.8rc12
  - 0.2.8rc3
  - 0.2.8rc4
  - 0.2.8rc5
  - 0.2.8rc9
  - 0.2.9
  - 0.3.0
  - 0.3.1
  - 0.3.2
  - 0.3.3
  - 0.3.4
  - 0.4.0
  - 0.4.0.post1
  - 0.4.1
  - 0.4.10
  - 0.4.11
  - 0.4.12
  - 0.4.13
  - 0.4.14
  - 0.4.15
  - 0.4.16
  - 0.4.2
  - 0.4.3
  - 0.4.4
  - 0.4.5
  - 0.4.6
  - 0.4.7
  - 0.4.8
  - 0.4.9
references:
- type: ADVISORY
  url: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-5189
- type: WEB
  url: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:7773
- type: WEB
  url: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1536
- type: WEB
  url: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:2010
- type: WEB
  url: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-5189
- type: WEB
  url: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2234387
- type: PACKAGE
  url: https://github.com/ansible/galaxy-importer
- type: WEB
  url: "https://github.com/ansible/galaxy-importer/blob/2c5c7c05fdfb0835878234b36de32902c703616d/galaxy_importer/collection.py#L160-L165"
- type: PACKAGE
  url: https://pypi.org/project/galaxy-importer
- type: ADVISORY
  url: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-55g2-vm3q-7w52
severity:
- type: CVSS_V3
  score: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N