CVE-2026-84680: Medium severity Ansible automation-controller vulnerability

Published Sep 1, 2026
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Updated

A flaw was found in automation-controller (AWX). OrganizationGalaxyCredentialsList (awx/api/views/organization.py) validates only that the attached credential's kind is galaxyapitoken, and OrganizationAccess.canattach (awx/main/access.py) has no branch for the galaxycredentials relationship, so it falls through to BaseAccess.canattach, which requires only canchange on the organization (org admin) and read access on the credential -- not userole. Consequently a user who administers any one organization and holds only read on a Galaxy/Hub credential in another organization (for example a system/platform auditor) can POST to /api/controller/v2/organizations/{id}/galaxycredentials/ to bind that foreign credential. RunProjectUpdate.buildenv (awx/main/tasks/jobs.py) then iterates organization.galaxycredentials, decrypts each token, and exports it as ANSIBLEGALAXYSERVERSERVERnTOKEN so ansible-galaxy authenticates to the credential owner's Hub URL. The token is masked in the API jobenv, but it is used server-side on the attacker's behalf against the victim's Hub -- a read-only role gains cross-tenant use of another org's secret. Discovered internally; verified live on AAP 2.7 / automation-controller 4.8.1 (a platform auditor attached a foreign org's credential (204) and a subsequent project sync exported the victim Hub URL + masked token); still present on devel. Upstream: github.com/ansible/awx (awx/main/access.py OrganizationAccess. canattach / BaseAccess.canattach; awx/api/views/organization.py OrganizationGalaxyCredentialsList; awx/main/tasks/jobs.py RunProjectUpdate.buildenv)

Affected Software

1 affected component
Ansible automation-controller=4.8.1

Event History

Sep 1, 2026
Data Sourced
via Red Hat·10:27 PM
DescriptionSeverityAffected Software

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