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.
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Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:30:00 +0000
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Thu, 24 Sep 2026 06:15:00 +0000
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| CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.7::el9 | |
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| CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.5::el8 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.5::el9 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.5::el8 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.5::el9 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_inside:2.5::el8 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_inside:2.5::el9 |
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Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:00:00 +0000
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Redhat ansible Automation Platform Inside
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| CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.6::el10 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.6::el9 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.6::el10 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.6::el9 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_inside:2.6::el9 |
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Wed, 23 Sep 2026 21:30:00 +0000
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Redhat ansible Automation Platform Developer
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| CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.4::el8 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.4::el9 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.4::el8 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.4::el9 |
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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. | |
| Title | Automation-controller: automation-controller: workflowjobtemplate /copy/ deep-copy sanitizer omits instance_groups authorization (instancegroup use_role bypass to control-plane) | |
| First Time appeared |
Redhat
Redhat ansible Automation Platform |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-862 | |
| CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2 | |
| Vendors & Products |
Redhat
Redhat ansible Automation Platform |
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cvssV3_1
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2026-09-23T19:40:07.988Z
Updated: 2026-09-25T18:12:35.916Z
Reserved: 2026-09-02T01:20:53.823Z
Link: CVE-2026-84719
Updated: 2026-09-25T18:12:28.833Z
Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-09-23T20:17:18.617
Modified: 2026-09-25T19:17:58.367
Link: CVE-2026-84719