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.
History

Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:30:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Thu, 24 Sep 2026 06:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.7::el9
References

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 03:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
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
References

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References
Metrics threat_severity

None

threat_severity

Critical


Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Redhat ansible Automation Platform Inside
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
Vendors & Products Redhat ansible Automation Platform Inside
References

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 21:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Redhat ansible Automation Platform Developer
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
Vendors & Products Redhat ansible Automation Platform Developer
References

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:45:00 +0000

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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
Weaknesses CWE-862
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2
Vendors & Products Redhat
Redhat ansible Automation Platform
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 9.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H'}


cve-icon MITRE

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

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-09-25T18:12:28.833Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-09-23T20:17:18.617

Modified: 2026-09-25T19:17:58.367

Link: CVE-2026-84719

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Critical

Publid Date: 2026-09-23T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2026-84719 - Bugzilla