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title: "CVE-2026-84474: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform - Privilege Escalation & Remote Code Execution"
description: "Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform automation-controller contains a privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerability caused by exposure of provisioning-callback secret and trusting client-supplied X-Forwarded-For header, letting minimally privileged or unauthenticated attackers execute jobs on arbitrary managed hosts, exploit requires empty proxy allow-list and read-level view_jobtemplate permission."
url: https://panop.io/threat-heartbeat/CVE-2026-84474/
---

# CVE-2026-84474 Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform - Privilege Escalation & Remote Code Execution

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform automation-controller contains a privilege escalation and remote code execution vulnerability caused by exposure of provisioning-callback secret and trusting client-supplied X-Forwarded-For header, letting minimally privileged or unauthenticated attackers execute jobs on arbitrary managed hosts, exploit requires empty proxy allow-list and read-level view\_jobtemplate permission.

CVSS base score 9.9 /10

Critical

CISA KEV

Not listed

Public exploit

None known

Authentication

Required

EPSS

0.80% chance of exploitation in 30 days

[View the NVD record ↗](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-84474)

## Details

Type

Privilege Escalation

Impact

Remote Code Execution, Privilege Escalation

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Published

23 September 2026

Updated

15 October 2026

Weakness

[CWE-807](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/807.html)

## Vendor fix

Update to the latest version of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

Patching closes this CVE. It does not tell you which of your systems run the affected version, or what else is exposed alongside them.

## References

- [https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-84474](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-84474)
- [https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71177](https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71177)
- [https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71179](https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71179)
- [https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-84474](https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-84474)
- [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show\_bug.cgi?id=2527073](https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2527073)
- [https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71113](https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71113)
- [https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71115](https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71115)
- [https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71114](https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71114)

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