Source: ansible-core Version: 2.17.5-4 Severity: important Tags: security upstream Forwarded: https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83955 X-Debbugs-Cc: car...@debian.org, Debian Security Team <t...@security.debian.org>
Hi, The following vulnerability was published for ansible-core. CVE-2024-9902[0]: | 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. If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry. For further information see: [0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2024-9902 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2024-9902 [1] https://github.com/ansible/ansible/issues/83955 [2] https://github.com/ansible/ansible/pull/83956 Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed. Regards, Salvatore
