RHSA-2026:80508 — Security Advisory

An update for rhc-worker-playbook is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Advanced Mission Critical Update Support and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.6 Extended Update Support Long-Life Add-On.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Python-based worker for Red Hat connect, used to launch Ansible playbooks via Ansible Runner.

Security Fix(es):

• ansible-collection-ansible-posix: ansible.posix authorized_key: local privilege escalation via symlink-following chown (CVE-2026-11837)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.