# 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.

- **Severity:** High 7.7 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 23 Sep 2026
- **Updated:** 16 Oct 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-fmp7-4cgr-jc56

## 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 (Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information)

## 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.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2026-84499 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-84499 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-84499/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-84499/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-84499
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-84499
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-84499

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-84499/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.