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CVE-2026-84712

📛 CVE Title

Automation-controller: automation-controller: unauthenticated /api/v2/ping/ discloses automation-mesh instance topology and instance-group membership

Description

A flaw was found in the automation-controller API. The unauthenticated health-check endpoint /api/v2/ping/ (ApiV2PingView, AllowAny) over-serializes RBAC-gated automation-mesh data into its anonymous response, exposing the full instance inventory (node hostnames, node types, UUIDs, heartbeats, capacities, and exact versions), all instance-group names and membership, the deployment install UUID, and the active control node. A remote, unauthenticated attacker can use this to map the control plane and fingerprint software versions for targeted attacks. This flaw affects confidentiality only; it does not expose secrets, credentials, or tenant data.

Overview

State
PUBLISHED
Assigner (CNA)
redhat
CVSS severity
MEDIUM
CVSS score
CVSS 5.3 / 10 5.3 5.3 / 10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Effective score
5.3 / 10 MEDIUM source: CNA overview
CWE(s)
CWE-497
Reserved
2026-09-02
Published
2026-09-23 19:40 UTC
Last updated
2026-09-24 03:41 UTC
Source
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/main/cves/2026/84xxx/CVE-2026-84712.json

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NVD published
2026-09-23 20:17:17 UTC
NVD last modified
2026-09-24 04:18:01 UTC
NVD CVSS v3.1
CVSS 5.3 / 10 5.3 5.3 / 10 MEDIUM source: secalert@redhat.com
NVD CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
Exploitability subscore
3.9 / 10
Impact subscore
1.4 / 10

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Affected products (5)

VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8 0:4.6.33-1.el8ap (unaffected)
Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9 0:4.6.33-1.el9ap (unaffected)
Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9 0:4.7.17-1.el9ap (unaffected)
Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2
Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2

Vendor references (4)

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NVD-tagged references (4)

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Raw JSON

The full cvelistV5 record. Download as CVE-2026-84712.json.

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