CVE-2026-11837

A local privilege escalation vulnerability was found in the ansible.posix authorizedkey module. The module's keyfile function uses os.chown instead of os.lchown and opens files without ONOFOLLOW when managing SSH authorized keys. An unprivileged local user can pre-stage symbolic links in their...

EUVD-2026-35982

A local privilege escalation vulnerability was found in the ansible.posix authorizedkey module. The module's keyfile function uses os.chown instead of os.lchown and opens files without ONOFOLLOW when managing SSH authorized keys. An unprivileged local user can pre-stage symbolic links in their...

CVE-2026-11837

CVE-2026-11837 describes a local privilege escalation in the ansible.posix authorized_key module. The keyfile() function uses os.chown() instead of os.lchown() and opens files without O_NOFOLLOW when handling SSH authorized keys. An unprivileged local user can pre-stage symbolic links in their ~/...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-11837

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - A local privilege escalation vulnerability was found in the ansible.posix authorizedkey module. The module's keyfile function uses os.chown instead of os.lchown...