Automation-controller: automation-controller: client ip spoofing in audit/access logs via unrestricted x-forwarded-for trust
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 4.3epss 0.1%
exploitation probability
0.1%top 98% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
A flaw was found in the Ansible Automation Platform automation-controller. In the shipped
production configuration, the Controller trusts the client-supplied X-Forwarded-For header as
the request's client IP without verifying that it originated from a trusted proxy, and selects
the leftmost (attacker-controlled) header value. As a result, an attacker can forge the source
IP address recorded for their requests in the Controller's audit and access logs, degrading
the integrity of forensic and SIEM attribution. The flaw does not grant additional access.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Affected products
Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7References
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71113https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71114https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71177https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71179https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-84718https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2527211