CVE-2026-84474

9.9 CRITICAL

Published 2026-09-23 · Updated 2026-09-24

AI risk analysis

Summary: The flaw allows a minimally privileged or unauthenticated attacker to read a secret and launch job templates against arbitrary hosts, leading to privilege escalation and remote code execution.
Exploitability: Exploitation is moderately hard as it requires reading the secret and spoofing the X-Forwarded-For header, but the preconditions are minimal.
Blast radius: If exploited, the impact is severe, as it can lead to full control over managed hosts and potential data exfiltration or destruction.
Detection: No reliable host or network indicator is derivable from the published description.
Prioritized remediation: Disable the provisioning-callback feature or restrict access to the provisioning callback endpoint to only trusted sources.

rceauth-bypasssecret-exposureapi-securityprivilege-escalation

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NVD description

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CWE-807

All references

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