CVE-2024-9902
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-11-06 09:56
Modified
2024-11-11 17:38
Severity ?
6.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:L
Summary
Ansible-core: ansible-core user may read/write unauthorized content
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:8969
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-9902
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2318271
Impacted products
Red HatAnsible Automation Platform Execution Environments
Red HatAnsible Automation Platform Execution Environments
Red HatAnsible Automation Platform Execution Environments
Red HatAnsible Automation Platform Execution Environments
Red HatAnsible Automation Platform Execution Environments
Red HatRed Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2
Red HatRed Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1
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