Automation-controller: automation-controller: instance install_bundle issues 10-year, non-revocable receptor mesh-ca certificates for caller-chosen (and case-variant impersonating) hostnames
Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).
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| Red Hat | Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8 | affected |
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| Red Hat | Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8 | affected |
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| Red Hat | Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9 | affected |
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| Red Hat | Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9 | affected |
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| Red Hat | Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9 | affected |
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| Red Hat | Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9 | affected |
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| Red Hat | Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 | affected |
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| Red Hat | Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7 | affected |
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| Package | CPE | Advisory | Released Date |
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| Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9 | |||
| automation-controller-0:4.7.17-1.el9ap | cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.6::el9 | RHSA-2026:71113 | 2026-09-23T00:00:00Z |
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| Redhat | Ansible Automation Platform |
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Vendor Workaround
Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base, or stability.
No CVSS v4.0
No CVSS v3.0
No CVSS v2
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
Exploit prediction score: < 1% (0.178% probability within 30 days)
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| CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.7::el9 | |
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| CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.5::el8 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.5::el9 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.5::el8 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.5::el9 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_inside:2.5::el8 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_inside:2.5::el9 |
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| First Time appeared |
Redhat ansible Automation Platform Developer
Redhat ansible Automation Platform Inside |
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| CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.6::el10 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.6::el9 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.6::el10 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.6::el9 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_inside:2.6::el9 |
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| Description | A flaw was found in the automation-controller instance install-bundle endpoint. When a System Administrator downloads an execution/hop node's install bundle, the controller signs an X.509 certificate with the receptor mesh certificate authority in which the Common Name, DNS subject-alternative-name, and receptor node-id are taken verbatim from the caller-chosen instance hostname, with a hard-coded ten-year validity, a random serial, and no issuance log or revocation list. Because the hostname charset validator is case-insensitive while the uniqueness validator is case-sensitive, an administrator can register a case variant of an existing control node's hostname and obtain a mesh-CA-signed certificate that TLS peers, which match hostnames case-insensitively, accept as that control node. In managed/hosted deployments — where the customer holds controller superuser but the platform operator runs the mesh — this yields a long-lived, non-revocable mesh peer credential and, with an on-path position, TLS impersonation or interception of control/hybrid mesh nodes. It does not grant direct remote code execution, because receptor work submission is gated by a separate signing key not included in the bundle. | |
| Title | Automation-controller: automation-controller: instance install_bundle issues 10-year, non-revocable receptor mesh-ca certificates for caller-chosen (and case-variant impersonating) hostnames | |
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Redhat
Redhat ansible Automation Platform |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-266 | |
| CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2 | |
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Redhat ansible Automation Platform |
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