PYSEC-2026-1401

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Ansible galaxy-importer Path Traversal vulnerability

view advisory published 2026-07-07Licence: CC-BY-4.0

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.

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CVE-2023-5189USmedium6.5—
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…
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