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Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 authorization bypass in WebSocket broadcast groups

CVE-2026-71367EUVD-2026-124483GHSA-CHF8-H4M7-HWH4

4.3MediumCNA
Exploited
No known exploitation
Fix
See vendor advisory
Who is exposed
Not reported
Published
Last modified
Reference
Last checked
0.36% · 30th percentile
22/100 · provisional
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 (automation-controller) has a flaw in its WebSocket handling that fails to restrict subscriptions to global broadcast groups. An attacker with a low-privilege login can reach it remotely over the network and receive real-time job status information from other organizations, including job IDs, status changes, timestamps, and instance group names.

Written by anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5 from the sources below. Verify against them.

Read the original description

An incorrect authorization vulnerability was found in AWX's WebSocket consumer. The consumer_access() function only enforces access controls for object-level event groups (job_events, workflow_events, ad_hoc_command_events) but does not restrict subscriptions to global broadcast groups such as 'jobs-status_changed'. When an authenticated user subscribes to a global broadcast group, the server accepts the subscription without verifying that the user has permission to view the associated resources. In multi-organization deployments, this allows a low-privilege user in one organization to receive real-time job status metadata from all organizations, including job IDs, status transitions, timestamps, and infrastructure topology details such as instance group names, bypassing the organization isolation enforced by the REST API.

cve.now Index

22Pcve.now Index 22 of 100 · methodology v3 · provisional
  • Exploitation0/40No signal
  • Exposure3/25Reachable over the network · Unknown: No advisory context yet
  • Reach10/20Shipped in major Linux distributions
  • Severity4.3/10CVSS 4.3
  • No patch5/5No fixed version listed; see vendor advisory

What would change the score

  • Would score about 77 if added to CISA KEV
  • Would score about 72 if CISA's SSVC rates exploitation active
  • Would score about 41 if advisories confirm default setups are exposed

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What cve.now has for CVE-2026-71367 (entry last updated 2026-11-12):
Affected:
- Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2: version range not reported
- Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2: version range not reported
- Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2: version range not reported
Fixed versions: none listed yet.
Setup: unknown whether the bug needs a non-default feature or setting. Check the advisory.
CISA KEV: CVE-2026-71367 is not listed as of cve.now's last read.
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Verify against the linked advisories before concluding, and cite the date you read each one:
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2511903
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-71367
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Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. First seen by cve.now
  3. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  4. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • ansible-automation-platform-26/controller-rhel9

    Version range not reported

  • ansible-automation-platform-27/controller-rhel9

    Version range not reported

  • automation-controller

    Version range not reported

Evidence 4

CVE record · 2

Establishes: The identifier and description.

  1. Record
  2. Record

Write-ups · 1

Establishes: Technical detail and context.

  1. Report

Other links · 1

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