CVE-2026-84499

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.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
Red HatRed Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 90:4.7.17-1.el9ap < *unaffected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-209: Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information

References