| CVE |
Vendors |
Products |
Updated |
CVSS v3.1 |
| A server-side request forgery flaw was found in the Ansible Automation Platform
automation-controller email notification backend. The email backend passes the user-supplied SMTP
host and port from a notification template directly to the SMTP client without validating that
the target is not an internal, loopback, link-local, or reserved address. An authenticated user
with organization notification-admin permission can create or modify an email notification
template pointing at an arbitrary internal address, trigger a test, and have the controller task
process open a raw TCP connection to that address. The resulting connection error is reflected
back through the notification record, providing a three-state internal port-scan oracle (open,
closed, filtered) over the control-plane's cluster network, including the in-cluster Kubernetes
API. When a shared organization template holds a stored SMTP password, redirecting the host can
also cause that credential to be transmitted to an attacker-controlled server. |
| A flaw was found in the automation-controller notification
subsystem. Although NotificationTemplate.notification_
configuration is protected from API filtering, its recipient
value is copied in clear text into the unprotected
Notification.recipients field on every send. Because the
credential-types endpoint is listable by any authenticated
user and the API filter backend traverses object relations
without per-hop authorization, a user with no privileges can
use a relational filter as a boolean count-oracle to recover,
character by character and across organizations, the secret
recipient values of other tenants' notifications — including
PagerDuty service keys and Slack/Mattermost/RocketChat/Webhook
bearer-token URLs. This flaw affects confidentiality. |
| A flaw was found in Ansible Automation Platform's automation-controller (AWX).
The Bulk Job Launch API (POST /api/v2/bulk/job_launch/) authorizes the
requested instance_groups with only a read-level permission check, whereas the
standard single-job launch path requires use-level permission on the same
field. A principal that holds read (but not use) permission on an instance
group -- for example the built-in read-only System Auditor role -- together
with execute permission on a job template can launch bulk jobs onto instance
groups they are not authorized to use, bypassing execution-placement
isolation. |
| StringListPathField.to_internal_value() calls
os.path.exists() on unbounded user-supplied paths.
200 vs 400 response reveals existence of arbitrary
absolute paths on the controller-web pod. Tenant
superuser can confirm /etc/tower/SECRET_KEY, k8s
service-account token, receptor sockets, ConfigMap
mount points. Mainly impactful on managed AAP
(ansiblecloud.com) where tenant admin != host admin. |
| /api/v2/config/ is protected only by IsAuthenticated.
license_info (account_number, subscription_id, pool_id,
sku, support_level, instance counts) returned to any
authenticated user. The superuser/auditor gate only covers
project_base_dir/project_local_paths/custom_virtualenvs,
not license_info. Enables social engineering against
Red Hat support and estate sizing reconnaissance. |
| JobJobEventsChildrenSummary view has no model/parent_model.
ModelAccessPermission.check_get_permissions() falls through
(returns True) for any authenticated user. The view uses
raw get_object_or_404(Job, pk) without DRF object-level
permission check. Zero-privilege user reads event tree
structure, event_processing_finished status, and enumerates
Job IDs platform-wide via 200/404 oracle. Sibling endpoint
/jobs/{id}/job_events/ correctly returns 403. |
| URLModificationMiddleware resolves named-URL lookups
against unfiltered Model.objects before RBAC. The 403→404
shim only rewrites 403 responses, leaving the pk=0 miss
path with a different 404 detail string. Differential
"Not found." vs "No <Model> matches..." reveals whether
a named resource (org, credential, inventory, host) exists
anywhere on the platform. Enables cross-tenant internal
hostname enumeration. |
| A container privilege escalation flaw was found in certain Ansible Automation Platform images. This issue arises from the /etc/passwd file being created with group-writable permissions during the build process. In certain conditions, an attacker who can execute commands within an affected container, even as a non-root user, can leverage their membership in the root group to modify the /etc/passwd file. This vulnerability allows an attacker to add a new user with any arbitrary UID, including UID 0, gaining full root privileges within the container. |
| A flaw was found in the AAP Controller's HashiCorp Vault credential plugin. The kubernetes_auth() function in awx_plugins/credentials/hashivault.py reads the controller pod's Kubernetes service account token and sends it to an attacker-controlled URL when a HashiCorp Vault Secret Lookup credential with kubernetes_role authentication is tested. An authenticated attacker with credential-creation privileges can exfiltrate the service account token, gaining Kubernetes API access to the control plane namespaces with full pod CRUD and secret read permissions, including database credentials and the Django SECRET_KEY. |
| 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. |
| A flaw was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform's automation-
controller. The setting that formats the log message emitted for API 4XX errors
is an administrator-controlled Python format-string template that is rendered
with a live user object as an argument. Because Python string formatting permits
attribute and item traversal on its arguments, an administrator can craft a
template that walks from the user object into the application settings and reads
the Django secret key and the database password. The formatted message is written
to a logger that can be forwarded to an external log aggregator, whose destination
is also administrator-controlled, allowing the secrets to be sent off the host. An
authenticated administrator can thereby obtain the master encryption key used to
protect all stored credentials and the database service password, enabling offline
decryption of every stored credential, forgery of user sessions, and direct
access to the controller database. |
| A flaw was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform's automation-
controller. The HTML view of job, ad hoc command, project update, and inventory
update standard output escapes HTML metacharacters but does not remove ANSI
terminal escape sequences before conversion to HTML. An ANSI OSC 8 hyperlink
sequence in the output is expanded into an HTML anchor whose href is not scheme-
filtered or escaped, so a low-privileged user who can produce output -- or an
external party whose data a playbook echoes -- can embed a javascript: link that
is rendered into a text/html response with no Content-Security-Policy. When a
higher-privileged user views the output page and clicks the link, attacker-
controlled JavaScript executes in their authenticated session, allowing actions
as that user up to full platform takeover. |
| A flaw was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform's automation-
controller. The Project scm_url field is not validated against values that
begin with a dash and is stored and passed verbatim to the git SCM module.
Because the module runs git ls-remote with the URL as a positional argument and
without a "--" separator, a git project URL such as "--upload-pack=<command>:x"
is interpreted by git as the --upload-pack option and executed via a shell. A
user with permission to create or modify a project in a single organization can
thereby execute arbitrary commands on the control-plane task pod, with output
reflected through the project update stdout endpoint, leading to cross-tenant
compromise and in-cluster lateral movement |
| A flaw was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform's automation-
controller. Four debug views that trigger the internal task, dependency, and
workflow schedulers are configured to allow any user (including unauthenticated
clients) and are routed in production builds because their URL include is not
gated on the debug setting. An unauthenticated remote attacker can repeatedly
invoke these endpoints to acquire the cluster-wide scheduler advisory lock;
because the legitimate scheduler acquires the same lock without waiting, the
attacker causes real scheduler runs to be skipped, stalling job dispatch for
all tenants, while also consuming controller web workers. The debug root view
additionally discloses the list of debug endpoints to unauthenticated callers. |
| A flaw was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform's automation-
controller. The provisioning-callback secret (host_config_key) is exposed to
users holding only the read-level view_jobtemplate permission -- both in the
job template API representation and in the activity stream -- and the
provisioning callback endpoint trusts a client-supplied X-Forwarded-For
header to determine the calling host when the controller is deployed behind
the AAP gateway with an empty proxy allow-list. By reading the secret and
spoofing X-Forwarded-For to match any host in the job template's inventory, a
minimally privileged or unauthenticated remote attacker can launch the job
template against arbitrary managed hosts using the job template's credentials,
resulting in privilege escalation and remote code execution on managed hosts. |
| A flaw was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform's automation-
controller. The AWX_TASK_ENV setting accepts arbitrary environment variable
keys with no restriction, and its values are applied directly to the running
automation controller web and task processes rather than only to sandboxed
execution environments. A user with the system administrator role can set
variables such as REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE, HTTPS_PROXY, SSLKEYLOGFILE, OPENSSL_CONF,
or LD_PRELOAD that reconfigure the control-plane process TLS trust store,
key-logging, OpenSSL engine, or dynamic linker. This enables silent interception
of the outbound TLS the control plane uses to fetch external secret-store
credentials and Red Hat subscription and Insights secrets, arbitrary file write
of TLS session keys, and potential native code execution in the control-plane
process, escalating an application administrator to compromise of the control
plane and all tenant secrets. |
| A flaw was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform's automation-
controller. When attaching a Galaxy or Automation Hub credential to an
organization through the galaxy_credentials relationship endpoint, the
controller verifies only that the requesting user can read the credential,
rather than that they hold use permission on it, unlike other credential
consumption in the product. An authenticated user who administers one
organization and has read-only visibility of a credential in another
organization -- for example a platform auditor -- can bind that foreign
credential to their own organization. On the next project synchronization the
controller decrypts the credential server-side and uses its token to
authenticate to the credential owner's Automation Hub, allowing cross-tenant use
of another organization's secret. |
| A flaw was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform's automation-
controller. Notification template password fields are encrypted with a key
derived from the secret key, the object primary key, and the field name, but not
the subfield name, and the API returns the full ciphertext of a password subfield
after the notification type is changed to one that does not define that subfield.
A user with administrative access to a single notification template, but without
any wider privilege, can switch the template type to reveal the stored
ciphertext, replant that ciphertext into a webhook password field pointing at a
server they control, and trigger a test notification. The controller decrypts the
replayed ciphertext to the original plaintext and sends it to the attacker's
server in an HTTP Basic authorization header, allowing recovery of Slack,
PagerDuty, Twilio, AWS SNS, and Grafana credentials the administrator was only
permitted to use, not read. |
| A flaw was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform's automation-
controller. A project has a signature validation credential foreign key used to
validate signed project content. Unlike the project's SCM credential, the
authorization logic does not verify that the requesting user has use permission
on the referenced credential, and the API field has no validator or type
restriction. An authenticated user holding only the organization project
administrator role can therefore bind an arbitrary credential belonging to
another organization, by its identifier, when creating or updating a project.
The controller discloses that credential's name and type in the project's
summary information and, during project synchronization, decrypts the bound
credential and uses it in the attacker-controlled project's update, allowing a
cross-tenant authorization boundary violation and information disclosure. |
| A flaw was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform's automation-
controller. The Thycotic Secret Server external credential plugin passes a
user-supplied server URL to its SDK without validating the scheme, host, or IP
range, and the plugin backend is executed synchronously within the automation
controller web process. Using the external credential test endpoint, a user who
holds only the use role on such a credential can override the stored server URL
with an arbitrary internal address, causing the control plane to issue requests
to internal services. Although the response is a generic error, response timing
reveals whether internal hosts and ports are reachable, enabling internal
network reconnaissance and a blind request-forgery primitive from the control
plane, and each request can hold a web worker, affecting availability. |
