CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-52902

MediumCVSS 4.7
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.13%

3th percentile - higher than 3% of all known CVEs

Summary

A path traversal vulnerability was found in awxkit, the CLI tool for AWX. The YAML !include directive does not sanitize file paths, allowing an attacker to craft a malicious YAML file that reads arbitrary YAML-formatted files from the local filesystem when imported using "awx --conf.format yaml import". This is a client-side vulnerability requiring user interaction.

Risk Assessment

An attacker could access sensitive YAML files on the victim's system if they import a malicious file.

Recommendation

Update awxkit to a patched version and exercise caution when importing YAML files from untrusted sources.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

A path traversal vulnerability was found in awxkit, the CLI tool for AWX. The YAML !include directive does not sanitize file paths, allowing an attacker to craft a malicious YAML file that reads arbitrary YAML-formatted files from the local filesystem when a user imports it using "awx --conf.format yaml import". This is a client-side vulnerability requiring user interaction.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS