CVE-2026-16544 Missing authorization in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2
Authenticated users can access real-time stdout from jobs in other organizations due to missing authorization checks in websocket event consumers.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2026-16544?
CVE-2026-16544 is a medium-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2, published on 22 Jul 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
A flaw was found in AWX. The websocket event consumer performs RBAC authorization checks only for event groups that are mapped in the consumer_access() function (job_events, workflow_events, ad_hoc_command_events). Three event groups - inventory_update_events, project_update_events, and system_job_events — are not mapped, causing the authorization check to be skipped. Any authenticated user can subscribe to these unmapped websocket event groups for any object ID and receive real-time stdout output from jobs belonging to organizations they have no access to. This is an incomplete remediation of CVE-2020-10698.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-16544?
How do I fix CVE-2026-16544?
No fix has been published for CVE-2026-16544 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.
Is CVE-2026-16544 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-16544 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-2jx7-9fh6-5m74.