Red Hat Ansible Automation: missing authorization
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.
Affected versions
Details and references
- CVSS 3.1
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Severity from
- the vendor (its own CVE record or advisory)
- Weakness
- CWE-862
- www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-84719
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-84719
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71113
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71114
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71115
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71177
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71179
- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-84719
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2527213