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Medium ALAS2023-2025-918 1 CVE

Moderate: ansible-core security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Mar 26, 2025 · Updated Apr 1, 2025

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2024-9902: 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.

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 ansible-core 0:2.15.3-1.amzn2023.0.11
Amazon Linux · 2023 ansible-test 0:2.15.3-1.amzn2023.0.11

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2024-9902.html