CVE-2026-84499

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.

CVSS Vector

References

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71113
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71114
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71177
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71179
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-84499
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2527090