Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform: information disclosure in errors
High7.7CVE-2026-84499 · Published Sep 23, 2026 · updated Sep 24, 2026
A flaw was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform's automation- controller. Survey questions of type password are write-only and stored encrypted, displayed only as a placeholder on read. When a schedule or workflow job template node is revalidated against a tightened survey specification, the controller decrypts the stored password and includes its plaintext value in the minimum/maximum length validation error message returned in the HTTP response. A user with the delegated JobTemplate Admin role can tighten the survey length constraint and trigger revalidation of a schedule or node created by another, higher-privileged user, thereby recovering that user's stored password in plaintext.
Affected versions
Details and references
- CVSS 3.1
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
- Severity from
- the vendor (its own CVE record or advisory)
- Weakness
- CWE-209
- www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-84499
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-84499
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71113
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71114
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71177
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71179
- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-84499
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2527090
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