CVE-2026-11837

high Red Hat
CVSS v3 Base Score
7.3
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
0.0%
Exploitation probability in 30 days
Top 94% most likely to be exploited
Attack Characteristics
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Published: June 10, 2026 (29 days ago)
Last Modified: June 10, 2026
Vendor: Red Hat
Source: REDHAT

Description

A local privilege escalation vulnerability was found in the ansible.posix authorized_key module. The module's keyfile() function uses os.chown() instead of os.lchown() and opens files without O_NOFOLLOW when managing SSH authorized keys. An unprivileged local user can pre-stage symbolic links in their ~/.ssh directory to redirect file ownership changes to arbitrary system paths when an operator runs the authorized_key task as root, leading to local privilege escalation.

CWE

CWE-59

Affected Products

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1Red Hat OpenStack Platform 18.0

References

🔗 bugzilla.redhat.com 🔗 www.cve.org 🔗 nvd.nist.gov