🛡️ OESA-2025-1393 — ansible (CVE-2023-5764)

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

ansible security update

Ansible is a radically simple model-driven configuration management, multi-node deployment, and remote task execution system. Ansible works over SSH and does not require any software or daemons to be installed on remote nodes. Extension modules can be written in any language and are transferred to managed machines automatically. %if 0 Provides: ansible-python3 = - Obsoletes: ansible-python3 < - BuildRequires: python3-devel python3-setuptools BuildRequires: python3-PyYAML python3-paramiko python3-crypto python3-packaging BuildRequires: python3-pexpect python3-winrm BuildRequires: git-core %if %with_docs BuildRequires: python3-sphinx python3-sphinx-theme-alabaster asciidoc %endif BuildRequires: python3-six python3-nose python3-pytest python3-pytest-xdist BuildRequires: python3-pytest-mock python3-requests python3-coverage python3-mock BuildRequires: python3-boto3 python3-botocore python3-passlib python3-jinja2 Requires: python3-PyYAML python3-paramiko python3-crypto python3-setuptools python3-six Requires: python3-jinja2 sshpass python3-jmespath %description Ansible is a radically simple model-driven configuration management, multi-node deployment, and remote task execution system. Ansible works over SSH and does not require any software or daemons to be installed on remote nodes. Extension modules can be written in any language and are transferred to managed machines automatically. This package installs versions of ansible that execute on Python3. %endif

Security Fix(es):

A template injection flaw was found in Ansible where a user's controller internal templating operations may remove the unsafe designation from template data. This issue could allow an attacker to use a specially crafted file to introduce templating injection when supplying templating data.(CVE-2023-5764)

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

Affected software

OESA-2025-1393 is recorded against 1 package.

  • ansible (fixed in 2.9.27-7.oe2203sp4)

Timeline and source

Published on 11 April 2025 and last revised on 18 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

www.openeuler.org (Advisory)
nvd.nist.gov (Advisory)

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2025-04-11
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-08-18
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
ansible 2.9.27-7.oe2203sp4

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