CVE record · CVE-2026-123037

Ansible-core: user module generate_ssh_key follows a symlinked ~/.ssh enabling local privilege escalation (incomplete fix of cve-2024-9902)

CVSS 6.7 MediumEPSS 0.0011 · 1st percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 6 Nov 2026, 05:38 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-24/hub-rhel8 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-24/lightspeed-rhel8 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-25/controller-rhel8-operator https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-25/de-minimal-rhel8 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-25/de-supported-rhel8 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-25/eda-controller-rhel8 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-25/eda-controller-rhel8-operator https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-25/ee-minimal-rhel8 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-25/ee-minimal-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-25/ee-supported-rhel8 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-25/ee-supported-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-25/gateway-rhel8-operator https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-25/hub-rhel8 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-25/hub-rhel8-operator https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-25/lightspeed-rhel8 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-25/lightspeed-rhel8-operator https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-25/platform-resource-rhel8-operator https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-25/platform-resource-runner-rhel8 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-26/controller-rhel9-operator https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-26/de-minimal-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-26/de-supported-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-26/eda-controller-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-26/eda-controller-rhel9-operator https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-26/ee-minimal-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-26/ee-supported-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-26/gateway-rhel9-operator https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-26/hub-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-26/hub-rhel9-operator https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-26/lightspeed-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-26/lightspeed-rhel9-operator https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-26/platform-resource-rhel9-operator https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-26/platform-resource-runner-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-27/aap-cloud-billing-operator-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-27/controller-rhel9-operator https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-27/de-minimal-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-27/de-supported-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-27/eda-controller-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-27/eda-controller-rhel9-operator https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-27/ee-minimal-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-27/ee-supported-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected

And 16 more products. The full list is on the CVE record.

Identifiers: CVE-2026-123037
CNA: redhat
Weakness (CWE): CWE-59
Tags: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Ansible Core 2
Red Hat Self-service automation portal 2
Path traversal
Published: 6 Nov 2026
Updated: 6 Nov 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
6.7	Medium	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CNA (redhat)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0011, the 1st percentile, on 6 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

6 Nov 2026, 05:38 UTC Confirmed by the CVE List
6 Nov 2026, 05:50 UTC First seen by agentprime
6 Nov 2026, 06:16 UTC Confirmed by NVD

Sources

References from the CNA

access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-123037 vdb-entryredhat
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2567189 issue-trackingredhat

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.