Bug 2487430

Summary: CVE-2026-11837 ansible-collection-ansible-posix: ansible.posix authorized_key: local privilege escalation via symlink-following chown [fedora-43]
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Borja Tarraso <btarraso>
Component: ansible-collection-ansible-posixAssignee: Maxwell G <maxwell>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Priority: high    
Version: 43CC: admiller, infra-sig, maxwell
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Whiteboard: {"flaws": ["ae05c834-cbe1-4e38-a53e-ff1374f12d37"]}
Fixed In Version: ansible-collection-ansible-posix-2.2.1-1.fc45 Doc Type: ---
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Last Closed: 2026-07-08 00:30:40 UTC Type: ---
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Description Borja Tarraso 2026-06-10 05:00:40 UTC
Disclaimer: Community trackers are created by Red Hat Product Security team on a best effort basis. Package maintainers are required to ascertain if the flaw indeed affects their package, before starting the update process.

Comment 1 Fedora Update System 2026-07-08 00:28:36 UTC
FEDORA-2026-4a0c61a43f (ansible-collection-ansible-posix-2.2.1-1.fc45) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 45.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-4a0c61a43f

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2026-07-08 00:30:40 UTC
FEDORA-2026-4a0c61a43f (ansible-collection-ansible-posix-2.2.1-1.fc45) has been pushed to the Fedora 45 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2026-07-08 00:38:42 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2026-9f99d1a591 (ansible-collection-ansible-posix-2.2.1-1.el10_3) has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 10.3.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2026-9f99d1a591

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2026-07-08 00:38:44 UTC
FEDORA-2026-0f941ecaa6 (ansible-collection-ansible-posix-2.2.1-1.fc44) has been submitted as an update to Fedora 44.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-0f941ecaa6

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2026-07-08 00:38:44 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2026-fd494b923d (ansible-collection-ansible-posix-2.2.1-1.el10_2) has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 10.2.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2026-fd494b923d

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2026-07-09 00:33:22 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2026-9f99d1a591 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 10.3 testing repository.

You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2026-9f99d1a591

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2026-07-09 01:14:33 UTC
FEDORA-EPEL-2026-fd494b923d has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 10.2 testing repository.

You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2026-fd494b923d

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2026-07-09 01:26:22 UTC
FEDORA-2026-50e5126be4 has been pushed to the Fedora 43 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2026-50e5126be4`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-50e5126be4

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2026-07-09 01:45:09 UTC
FEDORA-2026-0f941ecaa6 has been pushed to the Fedora 44 testing repository.
Soon you'll be able to install the update with the following command:
`sudo dnf upgrade --enablerepo=updates-testing --refresh --advisory=FEDORA-2026-0f941ecaa6`
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-0f941ecaa6

See also https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for more information on how to test updates.