CVE-2026-123037
CVE-2026-123037 is covered by the Red Hat CVE-2026-123037 security bulletin. Not in the CISA KEV catalog. Medium advisory severity. 1 advisory from Red Hat.
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CVE-2026-123037 key facts
- CISA KEV
- Not listed (catalog checked )
- Highest advisory severity
- Medium
- Vendor advisories
- 1 from Red Hat
- VulniPulse record
- Published · Updated
Is CVE-2026-123037 exploited?
No exploitation is reported in the sources VulniPulse tracks: CVE-2026-123037 is not in the CISA KEV catalog (checked ) and no tracked advisory for it reports exploitation. That is not proof the vulnerability cannot be exploited.
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Vendor advisory comparison
Red Hat
1 advisory- Advisory severityMedium6.7
Medium [CVE-2024-9902 +1] user module generate_ssh_key follows a symlinked ~/.ssh enabling local privilege escalation (incomplete fix of CVE-2024-9902)
CVE-2026-123037Source published Source updated
This bulletin covers 2 CVEs. The products, versions, score and guidance below describe the bulletin; check its source for applicability to this specific CVE.
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.
- Related products — impact not confirmed
- 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
7 more entries in the full advisory.
- Source-reported affected versions
- Affected-version details not available in this record.
- Source-reported fixed versions
- No fixed-version detail extracted. This does not mean no fix exists.
- Mitigation guidance
- 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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