CVE-2026-84689

automation-controller: automation-controller-container: automation-controller: bulk job launch allows setting a workflow node's job reference to an arbitrary unified job, enabling a low-privileged user to cancel and read metadata of jobs in other organizations

Published n/a CVSS 3.1 · 8.5 High EPSS n/a KEV · Not listed
Description
A flaw was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform's automation-
controller. The bulk job launch endpoint builds workflow job nodes from client
input using a serializer that leaves the node's job reference -- a field normally
set by the workflow task manager after it spawns a child job -- writable and does
not include it in the permission validation performed for the other node fields.
An authenticated user with permission to execute a single job template can submit
a bulk job launch whose node references the identifier of any unified job in any
organization, including jobs they cannot access. The node then exposes that job's
metadata, and cancelling the attacker's workflow cancels the referenced job
through the workflow cancellation cascade, without any per-job authorization
check. Repeated, this allows a low-privileged user to cancel running jobs,
project and inventory syncs, ad hoc commands, and system jobs across all
organizations, denying automation service platform-wide.

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Type Values Removed Values Added
Description A flaw was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform's automation- controller. The bulk job launch endpoint builds workflow job nodes from client input using a serializer that leaves the node's job reference -- a field normally set by the workflow task manager after it spawns a child job -- writable and does not include it in the permission validation performed for the other node fields. An authenticated user with permission to execute a single job template can submit a bulk job launch whose node references the identifier of any unified job in any organization, including jobs they cannot access. The node then exposes that job's metadata, and cancelling the attacker's workflow cancels the referenced job through the workflow cancellation cascade, without any per-job authorization check. Repeated, this allows a low-privileged user to cancel running jobs, project and inventory syncs, ad hoc commands, and system jobs across all organizations, denying automation service platform-wide.
Title automation-controller: automation-controller-container: automation-controller: bulk job launch allows setting a workflow node's job reference to an arbitrary unified job, enabling a low-privileged user to cancel and read metadata of jobs in other organizations
First Time appeared Redhat
Redhat ansible Automation Platform
Weaknesses CWE-915
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.6::el9
Vendors & Products Redhat
Redhat ansible Automation Platform
References
Metrics threat_severity

None

cvssV3_1

{'score': 8.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:H'}

threat_severity

Important