CriticalCVE-2026-84474

    Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform: Reliance on Untrusted Inputs in a Security Decision (CVE-2026-84474)

    Published Last modified Sources: Red Hat, CVE.org, BSI

    What is affected, what to do

    A flaw was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform's automation- controller. The provisioning-callback secret (host_config_key) is exposed to users holding only the read-level view_jobtemplate permission -- both in the job template API representation and in the activity stream -- and the provisioning callback endpoint trusts a client-supplied X-Forwarded-For header to determine the calling host when the controller is deployed behind the AAP gateway with an empty proxy allow-list.

    Update Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8 to version 0:4.5.36-1.el8ap, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9 to version 0:4.5.36-1.el9ap, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8 to version 0:4.6.33-1.el8ap.

    Affected
    • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8 lt *..0:4.5.36-1.el8ap
    • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9 lt *..0:4.5.36-1.el9ap
    • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8 lt *..0:4.6.33-1.el8ap
    • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9 lt *..0:4.6.33-1.el9ap
    • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9 lt *..0:4.7.17-1.el9ap
    • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 lt *..1789673739
    • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7 lt *..1789580684
    Fixed in
    • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8 0:4.5.36-1.el8ap
    • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9 0:4.5.36-1.el9ap
    • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8 0:4.6.33-1.el8ap
    • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9 0:4.6.33-1.el9ap
    • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9 0:4.7.17-1.el9ap
    • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 1789673739
    • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7 1789580684

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    Metrics

    9.9

    Priority

    XIEM Effective CVSS: highest available CVSS rating from NVD and vendor data.

    Source: NVD, CVSS v3

    9.9

    CVSS v3

    Severity Critical on the scale from 0 to 10.

    Source: Red Hat, CVE.org, BSI

    0.8 %

    EPSS score

    Low — model estimates < 1% exploitation likelihood.

    Source: FIRST EPSS, percentile 56.4

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    Severity
    Critical
    Priority (0–325)

    The priority score is a consolidated metric that condenses several individual signals into a single, action-guiding ranking: technical severity (CVSS), exploitation likelihood (EPSS), known-exploited status (KEV) and the context of the affected asset. The aim is to answer the only truly important question in vulnerability management: what first?

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    103.96 Methodology
    Exploit maturity

    An exploit is code or a technique that specifically uses a concrete vulnerability to force unintended behaviour — such as executing code or escalating privileges. It is the tool that turns a theoretical flaw into a practical attack.

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    no public PoC known
    XIEM Effective CVSS

    XIEM® is the tiered managed-security operating model from NEOSEC and a registered trademark of NEOSEC GmbH. It extends classic SIEM — the central collection, normalisation and correlation of security-relevant events — with endpoint forensics, network visibility and deception technology, and consolidates them into three building tiers: Sentry, Orchestrate and Command.

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    9.9 Methodology
    CVSS v3

    CVSS is the globally established, open standard for assessing the technical severity of a vulnerability on a scale from 0 to 10. It describes how easily a flaw can be exploited and what damage it can cause — but not how likely its actual exploitation is. CVSS and the complementary EPSS deliberately answer different questions.

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    9.9
    EPSS score

    The EPSS score is the absolute model output for an individual vulnerability: the estimated probability of real-world exploitation within the next 30 days, expressed as a value between 0 and 1 (i.e. 0 % to 100 %). A score of 0.42 means „the model estimates a 42 % chance of real-world exploitation within 30 days“.

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    0.8 %
    Low — model estimates < 1% exploitation likelihood.
    EPSS percentile

    The EPSS percentile is the relative position of a vulnerability within all EPSS-scored CVEs, expressed as a value between 0 and 1. A percentile of 0.90 means „this CVE has a higher EPSS score than 90 % of all other scored CVEs“. Unlike the EPSS score, it is not a probability — but a positioning within a ranking.

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    56.4
    High — this CVE ranks above the median of all CVEs scored today (rank ≥ 36%).
    KEV status

    The KEV catalogue is a list maintained by the US authority CISA of vulnerabilities for which active exploitation in the wild has been confirmed. It answers not the question „how severe?“ but „is it already being attacked?“ — thereby sharply prioritising patching.

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    —
    Published
    CWE

    CWE is a catalogue of typical weakness types in software and hardware — such as flawed input validation, unsafe memory handling or poor authentication. Where a CVE names a concrete vulnerability in a concrete product, a CWE describes the underlying class of defect.

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    CWE-807

    Detection rules

    No NEOSEC detection rule is available for this vulnerability yet.

    Classification under NIS2 and CRA

    Rule-based classification from exploitation status and severity. It does not replace a case-by-case assessment.

    NIS2

    NIS2 is EU Directive (EU) 2022/2555 to raise the level of cybersecurity across the Union. It substantially broadens obligations compared with the first NIS directive: more sectors, mandatory risk management, staged reporting duties and personal accountability of senior management.

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    High technical severity: assess and remediate the vulnerability in vulnerability handling under Art. 21(2)(e) NIS2 and document the decision.
    CRA

    The CRA is EU Regulation (EU) 2024/2847 setting horizontal cybersecurity requirements for „products with digital elements“ — from industrial controllers and software to connected consumer devices. For the first time manufacturers must ensure security across the entire product lifecycle, handle vulnerabilities and provide security updates.

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    From 11.12.2027, Annex I Part II CRA requires manufacturers of affected products with digital elements to handle vulnerabilities without delay and provide security updates.
    ISO/IEC 27001

    ISO/IEC 27001 is the internationally leading standard for an information security management system (ISMS). It describes a risk-based, process-oriented framework to systematically plan, implement, review and improve information security.

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    Control A.8.8, management of technical vulnerabilities: assess relevance to your systems, plan remediation and keep evidence.

    Description

    A flaw was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform's automation- controller. The provisioning-callback secret (host_config_key) is exposed to users holding only the read-level view_jobtemplate permission -- both in the job template API representation and in the activity stream -- and the provisioning callback endpoint trusts a client-supplied X-Forwarded-For header to determine the calling host when the controller is deployed behind the AAP gateway with an empty proxy allow-list. By reading the secret and spoofing X-Forwarded-For to match any host in the job template's inventory, a minimally privileged or unauthenticated remote attacker can launch the job template against arbitrary managed hosts using the job template's credentials, resulting in privilege escalation and remote code execution on managed hosts.

    Source: redhat_csaf, cvelistv5, NVD (NIST), BSI WID Portal, BSI CSAF

    Affected products

    The following versions are affected. Older releases of the same product line are also vulnerable unless stated otherwise.

    Affected products
    Affected versionsFixed in
    Red HatRed Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8
    • < 0:4.5.36-1.el8ap
    • 0:4.5.36-1.el8ap
    Red HatRed Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9
    • < 0:4.5.36-1.el9ap
    • 0:4.5.36-1.el9ap
    Red HatRed Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8
    • < 0:4.6.33-1.el8ap
    • 0:4.6.33-1.el8ap
    Red HatRed Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9
    • < 0:4.6.33-1.el9ap
    • 0:4.6.33-1.el9ap
    Red HatRed Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6
    • < 1789673739
    • 1789673739
    Red HatRed Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9
    • < 0:4.7.17-1.el9ap
    • 0:4.7.17-1.el9ap
    Red HatRed Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7
    • < 1789580684
    • 1789580684
    Red HatAnsible Automation Platform
    • 2.7
    • 2.4
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    Vendors and products

    Weakness classes (CWE)

    • CWE-807Reliance on Untrusted Inputs in a Security Decision

      Base

      The product uses a protection mechanism that relies on the existence or values of an input, but the input can be modified by an untrusted actor in a way that bypasses the protection mechanism.

      Entry at MITRE CWE-807

    References & sources

    Changes to this CVE

    Who changed this CVE and when: NVD (analysis, affected products, CVSS), the CVE publisher (CNA) and additional providers such as CISA (ADP).

    1. Record modifiedRed Hat

      Show 3 original changes
      Individual changes of this event as published by NVD
      TypeActionBeforeAfter
      Affected versions (publisher)added
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      Affected value modified. <a href="https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/blob/main/cves/2026/84xxx/CVE-2026-84474.json">CVE-2026-84474</a>
      Referenceadded
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      https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71177
      Referenceadded
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      https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71179

      Source identifier: secalert@redhat.com

    2. Record modifiedRed Hat

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      Individual changes of this event as published by NVD
      TypeActionBeforeAfter
      Affected versions (publisher)added
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      Affected value modified. <a href="https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/blob/main/cves/2026/84xxx/CVE-2026-84474.json">CVE-2026-84474</a>
      Referenceadded
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      https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71114

      Source identifier: secalert@redhat.com

    3. Record modifiedRed Hat

      Show 3 original changes
      Individual changes of this event as published by NVD
      TypeActionBeforeAfter
      Affected versions (publisher)added
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      Affected value modified. <a href="https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/blob/main/cves/2026/84xxx/CVE-2026-84474.json">CVE-2026-84474</a>
      Referenceadded
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      https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71113
      Referenceadded
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      https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71115

      Source identifier: secalert@redhat.com

    4. Record modifiedCISA ADP

      CISA assessment (SSVC): exploitation: none known, automatable: no

      Show the original change
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      TypeActionBeforeAfter
      SSVC assessmentadded
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      {"id":"CVE-2026-84474","role":"CISA Coordinator","options":[{"exploitation":"none"},{"automatable":"no"},{"technicalImpact":"total"}],"version":"2.0.3","timestamp":"2026-09-23T19:28:08.444949Z"}

      Source identifier: 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0

    5. ReceivedRed Hat

      CVSS V3.1: AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

      Weakness type: CWE-807

      Description added or changed

      Show 6 original changes
      Individual changes of this event as published by NVD
      TypeActionBeforeAfter
      Descriptionadded
      —
      A flaw was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform's automation- controller. The provisioning-callback secret (host_config_key) is exposed to users holding only the read-level view_jobtemplate permission -- both in the job template API representation and in the activity stream -- and the provisioning callback endpoint trusts a client-supplied X-Forwarded-For header to determine the calling host when the controller is deployed behind the AAP gateway with an empty proxy allow-list. By reading the secret and spoofing X-Forwarded-For to match any host in the job template's inventory, a minimally privileged or unauthenticated remote attacker can launch the job template against arbitrary managed hosts using the job template's credentials, resulting in privilege escalation and remote code execution on managed hosts.
      CVSSadded
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      AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
      Weakness type (CWE)added
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      CWE-807
      Affected versions (publisher)added
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      New affected value received. <a href="https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/blob/main/cves/2026/84xxx/CVE-2026-84474.json">CVE-2026-84474</a>
      Referenceadded
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      https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-84474
      Referenceadded
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      https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2527073

      Source identifier: secalert@redhat.com

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