Medium [CVE-2024-9902 +1] user module generate_ssh_key follows a symlinked ~/.ssh enabling local privilege escalation (incomplete fix of CVE-2024-9902)
This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-123037 and CVE-2024-9902; related products: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Ansible Core 2, OpenShift Service Mesh 3.
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Summary
user module generate_ssh_key follows a symlinked ~/.ssh enabling local privilege escalation (incomplete fix of CVE-2024-9902). Red Hat rates this moderate (CVSS 6.7).
Weakness: CWE-59.
Affected products named by the advisory: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2; Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Ansible Core 2; OpenShift Service Mesh 3; Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2; and 7 more.
Affected products named by the advisory: Red Hat Discovery 2; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8; Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9; and 3 more.
Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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Mitigation checklist
- Do not use generate_ssh_key: yes against accounts whose home directory is controlled by an untrusted user; pre-create ~/.ssh as a real directory owned appropriately before running the module, or generate the key as the target account itself (dropping to its uid/gid) rather than as root.
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