Microsoft security update for CVE-2024-9902
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Microsoft's advisory
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🎯 Affected products5
- azl3 ansible 2.17.0-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
- azl3 ansible 2.17.11-1 on Azure Linux 3.0
- cbl2 ansible 2.14.12-2 on CBL Mariner 2.0
- cbl2 ansible 2.14.12-2 on CBL-Mariner 2.0
- cbl2 ansible 2.14.18-1 on CBL Mariner 2.0
✅ Updates Microsoft lists: 2 updates
2 rows: one per KB article or update, update type and fixed build. Their details are on Microsoft's advisory.
| KB article | Update | Fixed build |
|---|---|---|
| — | Security Update | 2.14.18-1 |
| — | Security Update | 2.17.11-1 |
🧭 EchelonGraph on CVE-2024-9902
- EchelonGraph score
- 6.3 MEDIUM
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Fix status
- A fix is available — apply it.
Description from the CVE record (CVE.org), as published by its numbering authority
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.
Published by Red Hat, Inc., the CVE Numbering Authority that assigned CVE-2024-9902, in its CVE record at CVE.org; reused under the CVE Program's Terms of Use (its licence and MITRE's copyright notice are in our Terms of Service).