Bug 2487432

Summary:	CVE-2026-11837 ansible-collection-ansible-posix: ansible.posix authorized_key: local privilege escalation via symlink-following chown [epel-all]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora EPEL	Reporter:	Borja Tarraso <btarraso>
Component:	ansible-collection-ansible-posix	Assignee:	Maxwell G <maxwell>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	high	Docs Contact:
Priority:	high
Version:	epel10	CC:	admiller, infra-sig, maxwell
Target Milestone:	---	Keywords:	Security, SecurityTracking
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
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 00:30:49 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Blocks:	2487424

Description Borja Tarraso 2026-06-10 05:00:52 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 00:28:43 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 00:30:49 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 01:56:13 UTC

FEDORA-EPEL-2026-2e6fb1faee (ansible-collection-ansible-posix-1.6.2-1.el8) has been submitted as an update to Fedora EPEL 8.
https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2026-2e6fb1faee

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2026-07-09 01:20:18 UTC

FEDORA-EPEL-2026-2e6fb1faee has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 8 testing repository.

You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2026-2e6fb1faee

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

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2026-07-09 01:25:34 UTC

FEDORA-EPEL-2026-6904308b23 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 9 testing repository.

You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-EPEL-2026-6904308b23

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