CVE-2026-76648 Missing authorization in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2
Attackers can recover job template secrets by bypassing read authorization checks in the copy API view.
- 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-2026-76648?
CVE-2026-76648 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2, published on 23 Sep 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
CopyAPIView (awx/awx/api/generics.py:873) sets permission_classes = (IsAuthenticated,), so DRF's get_object() performs no object-level RBAC. The get() handler (lines 988–991) explicitly guards with request.user.can_access(obj._class_, 'read', obj) — but post() (lines 1001–1010) does not. POST only checks:
can_access(model, 'add', create_kwargs_check)
can_access(model, 'copy_related', obj)
For JobTemplate, can_add (awx/awx/main/access.py:1465–1520) gates on
inventory.use_role + project.use_role + execution_environment.read_role — resource-level roles that do not imply read on the source JT — and can_copy_related (1522–1534) checks only credentials.use_role. None of these imply the caller can read the source JT.
Weakness: CWE-862
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-76648?
How do I fix CVE-2026-76648?
No fix has been published for CVE-2026-76648 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-2026-76648 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-76648 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-26cj-h793-xx7v.