An incorrect authorization flaw was found in AWX, the automation controller component of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.
CVE-2026-126642
An incorrect authorization flaw was found in AWX, the automation controller component of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. The API access classes for JobTemplate and WorkflowJobTemplate do not check the caller's Credential userole when assigning the single-valued webhookcredential foreign key: JobTemplateAccess.canadd/canchange and WorkflowJobTemplateAccess.canchange in awx/main/access.py omit the checkrelated('webhookcredential', Credential, ..., rolefield='userole') call that UnifiedCredentialsMixin.canattach performs for the normal many-to-many credentials relationship, and the serializer validates only the credential's type and namespace. A user who may administer their own job template (or workflow job template) and use its project and inventory can therefore attach a webhook token credential (for example a GitLab token) that they do not have use permission on. The template administrator can retrieve the template's webhook key; a subsequent webhook event causes AWX to decrypt the attached token and send it in the request header (for GitLab, PRIVATE-TOKEN) to a status URL derived from the event payload, disclosing the victim's token to a destination the attacker can…
Assessment
- CVSS
- 6.5 (v3.1)
- Severity
- Medium
- Known exploited
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Exploit availability
- Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
- Published
- 12 November 2026
- Last updated
- 12 November 2026
- Assigner
- redhat
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
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