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CVE-2026-84719

📛 CVE Title

Automation-controller: automation-controller: workflowjobtemplate /copy/ deep-copy sanitizer omits instance_groups authorization (instancegroup use_role bypass to control-plane)

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Description

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.

Overview

State
PUBLISHED
Assigner (CNA)
redhat
CVSS severity
CRITICAL
CVSS score
CVSS 9.9 / 10 9.9 9.9 / 10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Effective score
9.9 / 10 CRITICAL source: CNA overview
CWE(s)
CWE-862
Reserved
2026-09-02
Published
2026-09-23 19:40 UTC
Last updated
2026-09-24 03:28 UTC
Source
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/main/cves/2026/84xxx/CVE-2026-84719.json
Linked Threat
CVE-2026-84719 — Automation-controller: automation-controller: workflowjobtemplate /copy/ deep-copy sanitizer omits instance_groups authorization (instancegroup use_role bypass to control-plane)

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NVD published
2026-09-23 20:17:18 UTC
NVD last modified
2026-09-24 04:18:02 UTC
NVD CVSS v3.1
CVSS 9.9 / 10 9.9 9.9 / 10 CRITICAL source: secalert@redhat.com
NVD CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Exploitability subscore
3.1 / 10
Impact subscore
6.0 / 10

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Affected products (7)
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8 0:4.5.36-1.el8ap (unaffected) —
Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9 0:4.5.36-1.el9ap (unaffected) —
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 (5)

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NVD-tagged references (5)

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Raw JSON

The full cvelistV5 record. Download as CVE-2026-84719.json.

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