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CVE-2026-84718

Automation-controller: automation-controller: client ip spoofing in audit/access logs via unrestricted x-forwarded-for trust

Published: Sep 23, 2026Updated: Sep 24, 2026 Sources: CVE List NVDCWE-348
4.3MEDIUM
NVD MITRE
EPSS Score
0.1%
Top 97.5%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
No Fix Available
Self-Check
Not available

Description

A flaw was found in the Ansible Automation Platform automation-controller. In the shipped production configuration, the Controller trusts the client-supplied X-Forwarded-For header as the request's client IP without verifying that it originated from a trusted proxy, and selects the leftmost (attacker-controlled) header value. As a result, an attacker can forge the source IP address recorded for their requests in the Controller's audit and access logs, degrading the integrity of forensic and SIEM attribution. The flaw does not grant additional access.

No summary for this CVE yet.

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:NAC:LPR:LUI:NS:UC:NI:LA:N
Exploitability
AV:NAttack Vector
Network
AC:LAttack Complexity
Low
PR:LPrivileges Required
Low
UI:NUser Interaction
None
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:NConfidentiality
None
I:LIntegrity
Low
A:NAvailability
None
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Weaknesses

CWE-348

Affected Products

Red Hat
commercial·US
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8On-premDev Tool
DevTools & CI
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9On-premDev Tool
DevTools & CI
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9On-prem
Operating Systems / linux-distro
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6On-premDev Tool
DevTools & CI / ci-cd
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7On-premDev Tool
DevTools & CI / ci-cd

Exploitability

No known exploits, KEV entries, or remediation guidance available for this vulnerability yet.

References

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71113
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https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71114
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https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71177
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