RHEL 8 / 9 : Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 Product Security and Bug Fix Update (Critical) (RHSA-2026:71115)

critical Nessus Plugin ID 349537

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 / 9 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:71115 advisory.

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform provides an enterprise framework for building, deploying and managing IT automation at scale. IT Managers can provide top-down guidelines on how automation is applied to individual teams, while automation developers retain the freedom to write tasks that leverage existing knowledge without the overhead. Ansible Automation Platform makes it possible for users across an organization to share, vet, and manage automation content by means of a simple, powerful, and agentless language.

Security Fix(es):

* automation-controller: Privilege escalation via provisioning-callback host-match bypass (CVE-2026-84474)
* automation-controller: Instance-group privilege escalation via workflow job template copy (CVE-2026-84719)
* automation-controller: Arbitrary file read via Project scm_branch git argument injection (CVE-2026-84711)
* automation-controller: Privilege escalation via constructed inventory attachment (CVE-2026-84684)
* automation-controller: Instance-group privilege escalation via Schedule and workflow node attachment (CVE-2026-84638)
* automation-controller: Remote code execution via Project scm_url git argument injection (CVE-2026-84502)
* automation-controller: awx: Privilege escalation to OpenShift namespace via pod_spec_override injection in container groups (CVE-2026-75884)
* automation-controller: Kubernetes service account token exfiltration via HashiCorp Vault credential SSRF (CVE-2026-12564)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

For details about this release, refer to the release notes listed in the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected automation-controller-venv-tower package.

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 349537

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2026-71115.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 9/23/2026

Updated: 9/23/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5

Percentile: 93.26

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-84719

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.9

Temporal Score: 8.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:automation-controller-venv-tower

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 9/23/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/18/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-12564, CVE-2026-75884, CVE-2026-84474, CVE-2026-84502, CVE-2026-84638, CVE-2026-84684, CVE-2026-84711, CVE-2026-84719

CWE: 184, 807, 862, 863, 88, 918

RHSA: 2026:71115

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