CVE-2026-84499
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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.
Severity
HIGH
CVSS score
7.7
(v3.1)
Vulnerability status
Awaiting Analysis
Source identifier
Published
2026-09-23 19:19:40.233000
Last modified
2026-11-06 01:17:56.293000
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