Auth bypass in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Execution Environments

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.

Vulnerability class: Broken Access Control

EPSS: 0.003 (17.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.