CVE-2026-84499 Information disclosure in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8
A user with JobTemplate Admin role can recover other users' stored survey passwords in plaintext via validation error messages.
- 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-2026-84499?
CVE-2026-84499 is a high-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 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. Survey questions of type password are write-only and stored encrypted, displayed only as a placeholder on read. When a schedule or workflow job template node is revalidated against a tightened survey specification, the controller decrypts the stored password and includes its plaintext value in the minimum/maximum length validation error message returned in the HTTP response. A user with the delegated JobTemplate Admin role can tighten the survey length constraint and trigger revalidation of a schedule or node created by another, higher-privileged user, thereby recovering that user's stored password in plaintext.
Weakness: CWE-209
Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-84499?
How do I fix CVE-2026-84499?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Is CVE-2026-84499 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-84499 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-fmp7-4cgr-jc56.