vulnerability

VMware Photon OS: CVE-2023-5115

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:C/A:N)
Published
Dec 18, 2023
Added
Jan 20, 2025
Modified
Feb 9, 2026

Description

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.

Solution

vmware-photon_os_update_tdnf
Title
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