🛡️ CVE-2024-9902 on Debian — ansible

⚪ Unknown ✅ No Known Exploit OSV
N/A
CVSS Score
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Description

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.

Distribution advisory

This page covers CVE-2024-9902 as tracked by Debian, for the package ansible. The fix is available in version 5.4.0-1; earlier versions remain affected.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability low.

Affected software

DEBIAN-CVE-2024-9902 is recorded against 2 packages.

  • ansible (fixed in 5.4.0-1)
  • ansible-core (fixed in 2.18.0-1)

Timeline and source

Published on 6 November 2024 and last revised on 4 August 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

security-tracker.debian.org (Advisory)

CVE-2024-9902 on other distributions

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Details

Severity Unknown
CVSS Score N/A
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
CWE N/A
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-11-06
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-08-04
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
ansible — 5.4.0-1
ansible-core — 2.18.0-1

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