CVE-2024-9902: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Execution Environments

Medium severity, CVSS 6.3. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Execution Environments: before 3.0.1-96 (fixed in 3.0.1-96); before 3.0.1-95 (fixed in 3.0.1-95); before 2.9.27-32 (fixed in 2.9.27-32); before 2.14.13-21 (fixed in 2.14.13-21); before 2.17.6-2 (fixed in 2.17.6-2)
• Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 For Rhel 8: before 1:2.15.13-1.el8ap (fixed in 1:2.15.13-1.el8ap)
• Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 For Rhel 9: before 1:2.15.13-1.el9ap (fixed in 1:2.15.13-1.el9ap)
• Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 For Rhel 8: before 1:2.16.13-1.el8ap (fixed in 1:2.16.13-1.el8ap)
• Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 For Rhel 9: before 1:2.16.13-1.el9ap (fixed in 1:2.16.13-1.el9ap)
• Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
• Red Hat Red Hat Openstack Platform 17.1 For Rhel 9: before 0:2.14.2-4.6.el9ost (fixed in 0:2.14.2-4.6.el9ost)

Published 2024-11-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.