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Critical Local Privilege Escalation Fix for Ansible Collection in Fedora

ID: 3107c0dd-624b-53e7-aca0-c83875217bce

STIX ID: report--3107c0dd-624b-53e7-aca0-c83875217bce

Feed Name: ThreatCluster

Threat Score
60/100

Date Published: 2026-07-17

Date Updated: 2026-07-17

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**Executive Summary:** On July 8, 2026 Fedora released ansible-collection-ansible-posix update 2.2.1 to address CVE-2026-11837, a critical local privilege escalation in the ansible.posix authorized_key module (symlink-following chown) affecting Fedora 43 and 44; users are urged to apply the fix immediately using dnf to mitigate potential exploitation.

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