Bug 2487432 - CVE-2026-11837 ansible-collection-ansible-posix: ansible.posix authorized_key: local privilege escalation via symlink-following chown [epel-all]
Summary: CVE-2026-11837 ansible-collection-ansible-posix: ansible.posix authorized_key...
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora EPEL
Classification: Fedora
Component: ansible-collection-ansible-posix
Version: epel10
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
high
high
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Assignee: Maxwell G
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Blocks: CVE-2026-11837
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Reported: 2026-06-10 05:00 UTC by Borja Tarraso
Modified: 2026-07-17 00:57 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: ansible-collection-ansible-posix-2.2.1-1.fc45 ansible-collection-ansible-posix-1.6.2-1.el8 ansible-collection-ansible-posix-1.6.2-1.el9
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Last Closed: 2026-07-08 00:30:49 UTC
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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.
Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2026-07-17 00:44:47 UTC 
FEDORA-EPEL-2026-2e6fb1faee (ansible-collection-ansible-posix-1.6.2-1.el8) has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 8 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.
Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2026-07-17 00:57:24 UTC 
FEDORA-EPEL-2026-6904308b23 (ansible-collection-ansible-posix-1.6.2-1.el9) has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 9 stable repository.
If problem still persists, please make note of it in this bug report.
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