{"id":"CVE-2026-84499","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2026-84499","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T01:04:31.715Z","title":"A flaw was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform's automation- controller.","description":"A flaw was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform's automation-\ncontroller. Survey questions of type password are write-only and stored\nencrypted, displayed only as a placeholder on read. When a schedule or\nworkflow job template node is revalidated against a tightened survey\nspecification, the controller decrypts the stored password and includes its\nplaintext value in the minimum/maximum length validation error message\nreturned in the HTTP response. A user with the delegated JobTemplate Admin\nrole can tighten the survey length constraint and trigger revalidation of a\nschedule or node created by another, higher-privileged user, thereby\nrecovering that user's stored password in plaintext.","published":"2026-09-23T19:19:40.000Z","lastModified":"2026-09-26T23:16:38.000Z","status":"Awaiting Analysis","sourceIdentifier":"secalert@redhat.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.7,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N"},"cwe":["CWE-209"],"affected":[],"epss":{"score":0.00379,"percentile":0.31648,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[{"date":"2026-09-24","score":0.00379,"percentile":0.29074}]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (0.38%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[{"kind":"new","label":"New CVE","at":"2026-09-23T19:19:40.000Z","detail":{"score":"7.7","severity":"HIGH","publishedAt":"2026-09-23T19:19:40.233Z"},"summary":"New CVE, high severity (CVSS 7.7)."}],"references":[{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71113","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71114","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71177","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71179","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-84499","source":"secalert@redhat.com"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2527090","source":"secalert@redhat.com"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-84499","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}