A flaw was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform's automation- controller.
CVE-2026-84683
A flaw was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform's automation- controller. The HTML view of job, ad hoc command, project update, and inventory update standard output escapes HTML metacharacters but does not remove ANSI terminal escape sequences before conversion to HTML. An ANSI OSC 8 hyperlink sequence in the output is expanded into an HTML anchor whose href is not scheme- filtered or escaped, so a low-privileged user who can produce output -- or an external party whose data a playbook echoes -- can embed a javascript: link that is rendered into a text/html response with no Content-Security-Policy. When a higher-privileged user views the output page and clicks the link, attacker- controlled JavaScript executes in their authenticated session, allowing actions as that user up to full platform takeover.
Assessment
- CVSS
- 8.7 (v3.1)
- Severity
- High
- EPSS
- 0.26% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Known exploited
- Not listed in CISA KEV
- Exploit availability
- Nothing found in Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei or public PoC repositories
- Published
- 23 September 2026
- Last updated
- 2 November 2026
- Affected
- Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8 · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9 · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9
- Assigner
- redhat
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
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