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Medium, CVSS 6.3amended

Ansible galaxy-importer Path Traversal vulnerability

CVE-2023-5189GHSA-55g2-vm3q-7w52

What to do

Vendor response not established. Follow the primary source's mitigation guidance and check back for a fix.

This page has no inventory attached, so it cannot say whether you are affected. A vendor fix is not proof that your deployment is fixed.

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Affected packages

  • PyPI galaxy-importer

    Affected
    <= 0.4.16
    Fixed in
    no fixed version recorded

Sources

Severity and exploitation
Exploitation
No confirmed exploitation recorded. Patch Next marks exploitation only from CISA KEV.
CVSS
6.3 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:H/A:N
EPSS
  • CVE-2023-5189: 0.98% estimated exploitation activity in the next 30 days; percentile 62.34 (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-03). This is a model estimate, not proof of exploitation or customer exposure.
Source description

As published by the source; long descriptions are shortened.

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.

Dates and revisions
Published by the source
Last modified by the source
Source last checked
  1. Revision 2 · amended ·

    Amended from ghsa record GHSA-55g2-vm3q-7w52

  2. Revision 1 · created ·

    Published from osv record GHSA-55g2-vm3q-7w52

Agent brief

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# Patch Next advisory brief: CVE-2023-5189

Advisory: Ansible galaxy-importer Path Traversal vulnerability
IDs: CVE-2023-5189, GHSA-55g2-vm3q-7w52
Record: https://patchnext.com/advisories/cve-2023-5189 (revision 2, source checked 26 Oct 2026, 13:30 UTC)
Inventory: none attached. This brief comes from a public page and does not say whether any deployment is affected.
Severity: Medium (CVSS 6.3)
Exploitation: no confirmed exploitation recorded. Patch Next confirms exploitation only from CISA KEV.
Vendor response: Vendor response not established. A vendor fix does not mean a deployment is fixed.

## Affected components
- PyPI galaxy-importer: affected <= 0.4.16

## Suggested inspection (read-only)
- `python -m pip show galaxy-importer`: prints the installed version. Run with the environment that serves production active.

## Supported action
No complete vendor fix is recorded. Follow the primary source's mitigation guidance and check this record again before closing anything.

## Required regression checks
- Run the test suite and a production build.
- Exercise the features that depend on galaxy-importer.
- Repeat the inspection and confirm that only fixed versions remain installed.

## Rollback considerations
- Keep the previous lockfile and deployment artifact. Rolling back reinstates the vulnerable version, so apply any documented mitigation while you fix forward.

## Unresolved questions
- Which deployments run an affected version?
- Exploitation status can change. Check again before lowering the priority.
- Mark the work resolved only after the fixed version is verified in production.

## Sources
- Verified: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-55g2-vm3q-7w52 (OSV record GHSA-55g2-vm3q-7w52 lists affected ranges: PyPI galaxy-importer >=0 <=0.4.16)
- Verified: https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-55g2-vm3q-7w52 (GitHub-reviewed advisory GHSA-55g2-vm3q-7w52 lists affected ranges: PyPI galaxy-importer >=0 <=0.4.16)

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