CVE-2026-84499
HighCVSS 7.7Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk29th percentile - higher than 29% of all known CVEs
Summary
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.
Risk Assessment
Risk of plaintext password disclosure to lower-privileged users, potentially leading to privilege escalation and confidentiality breaches.
Recommendation
Update Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform to a patched version that does not expose passwords in error messages, or restrict access to administrative roles.
Other vulnerabilities in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
See all- CVE-2026-104710Unknown
This CVE number has been rejected because it is a duplicate of CVE-2026-71364, which was publicly disclosed and fixed in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform on 2026-08-24. No separate identifier is required.
- CVE-2026-84486High
In Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform's automation-controller, four debug views that trigger the internal task, dependency, and workflow schedulers are accessible to any user, including unauthenticated clients, because their URL routing is not gated on the debug setting. An unauthenticated remote attacker can repeatedly invoke these endpoints to acquire the cluster-wide scheduler advisory lock, causing real scheduler runs to be skipped and stalling job dispatch for all tenants while consuming controller web workers.
Original NVD description (English source)
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.
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS