CVE-2026-84474 Privilege escalation in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8
Attackers can escalate privileges and execute code on managed hosts by exposing secrets and spoofing headers in Ansible Automation Platform.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2026-84474?
CVE-2026-84474 is a critical vulnerability in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8, published on 23 Sep 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
A flaw was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform's automation- controller. The provisioning-callback secret (host_config_key) is exposed to users holding only the read-level view_jobtemplate permission -- both in the job template API representation and in the activity stream -- and the provisioning callback endpoint trusts a client-supplied X-Forwarded-For header to determine the calling host when the controller is deployed behind the AAP gateway with an empty proxy allow-list. By reading the secret and spoofing X-Forwarded-For to match any host in the job template's inventory, a minimally privileged or unauthenticated remote attacker can launch the job template against arbitrary managed hosts using the job template's credentials, resulting in privilege escalation and remote code execution on managed hosts.
Weakness: CWE-807
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-84474?
How do I fix CVE-2026-84474?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Is CVE-2026-84474 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-84474 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-2mcj-95p4-49mv.