CVE-2024-9902

Published: Nov 6, 2024

Modified: Nov 6, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

6.3

MEDIUM

Description

A flaw was found in Ansible. The ansible-core `user` module can allow an unprivileged user to silently create or replace the contents of any file on any system path and take ownership of it when a privileged user executes the `user` module against the unprivileged user's home directory. If the unprivileged user has traversal permissions on the directory containing the exploited target file, they retain full control over the contents of the file as its owner.

Vendor	Product	Versions
Unknown	ansible-core	affected `0 - < 2.14.18rc1` affected `2.15.0b1 - < 2.15.13rc1` affected `2.16.0b1 - < 2.16.13rc1` affected `2.17.0b1 - < 2.17.6rc1` affected `2.18.0b1 - < 2.18.0rc2`
Red Hat	Ansible Automation Platform Execution Environments	unaffected `3.0.1-96 - < *`
Red Hat	Ansible Automation Platform Execution Environments	unaffected `3.0.1-95 - < *`
Red Hat	Ansible Automation Platform Execution Environments	unaffected `2.9.27-32 - < *`
Red Hat	Ansible Automation Platform Execution Environments	unaffected `2.14.13-21 - < *`
Red Hat	Ansible Automation Platform Execution Environments	unaffected `2.17.6-2 - < *`
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8	unaffected `1:2.15.13-1.el8ap - < *`
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9	unaffected `1:2.15.13-1.el9ap - < *`
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8	unaffected `1:2.16.13-1.el8ap - < *`
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9	unaffected `1:2.16.13-1.el9ap - < *`
Red Hat	Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1 for RHEL 9	unaffected `0:2.14.2-4.6.el9ost - < *`
Red Hat	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10	All versions