Automation-controller: automation-controller: workflowjobtemplate /copy/ deep-copy sanitizer omits instance_groups authorization (instancegroup use_role bypass to control-plane)
28Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 9.9epss 0.4%
exploitation probability
0.4%top 66% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
A flaw was found in the Ansible Automation Platform automation-controller. When a
WorkflowJobTemplate is copied, the deep-copy permission sanitizer validates only the inventory,
unified_job_template, and credentials of each cloned node and fails to check the instance_groups
(and execution_environment and labels) that were preserved from the original. A user with
organization workflow-admin permission but no role on the referenced instance groups can copy a
workflow, become its administrator, and launch jobs pinned to instance groups they are not
authorized to use — including the control-plane instance group — bypassing the InstanceGroup
use_role boundary and causing attacker-influenced automation to run in the control-plane
execution context.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9Red 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-2026:71115https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71177https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71179https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-84719https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2527213