Evidence used
- No CISA KEV confirmation is currently recorded.
BlackTreeCVE IntelligenceAuthoritative vendor disclosure · 2026
CVE-2026-84475High confidence
automation-controller: automation-controller-container: automation-controller: InventorySource.source_vars lacks prevent_search, enabling zero-privilege cross-tenant extraction of inline inventory-plugin credentials via the credential_types FieldLookupBackend count-oracle
Red Hat Product Security · automation-controller.src as a component of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2
7.7HighCVSS 3.1
Within 7 days
Patch availableRed Hat Product Security reports a high vendor CVSS assessment and supplies remediation evidence. Validate product applicability and exposure while canonical CVE data is pending.
R
Open reassessment dashboard →Operational reassessment
Published severity in operational context
Published severityHigh→Operational priority:High, unchanged from published severity.unchanged
Compensating controls
- Validate the affected product branch and deploy the verified fixed release.
- Restrict the affected network interface to trusted sources where business-safe.
- Monitor vendor guidance and exploitation sources for a material change.
Verification
- Confirm that the asset runs Red Hat Product Security automation-controller.src as a component of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 and falls inside the recorded affected range.
- Verify the installed build against the product-specific fixed version after deployment.
- Validate exposure, authentication requirements and compensating controls in the actual environment.
- Reopen this reassessment when CVSS, KEV, EPSS, exploit evidence or remediation changes.
Direct vendor intelligence
1 currentAuthoritative vendor CSAF and VEX advisories
Structured product status and remediation from the issuing vendor. Product-state explanations are always visible; large lists can be searched or downloaded.
CVE-2026-84475 · CSAF 2.0 · revision 3 · finalRed Hat Product Securityautomation-controller: automation-controller-container: automation-controller: InventorySource.source_vars lacks prevent_search, enabling zero-privilege cross-tenant extraction of inline inventory-plugin credentials via the credential_types FieldLookupBackend count-oracle
The vendor explicitly identifies these products as affected by this CVE.
- automation-controller.src as a component of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2
- Summary
- automation-controller: InventorySource.source_vars lacks prevent_search, enabling zero-privilege cross-tenant extraction of inline inventory-plugin credentials via the credential_types FieldLookupBackend count-oracle
- Remediation
- Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. For details on how to apply this update, refer to: https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_ansible_automation_platform/2.7#Upgrade
Red Hat Product Security reports a high vendor CVSS assessment and supplies remediation evidence. Validate product applicability and exposure while canonical CVE data is pending.
Patch available01
What, why and how
automation-controller: InventorySource.source_vars lacks prevent_search, enabling zero-privilege cross-tenant extraction of inline inventory-plugin credentials via the credential_types FieldLookupBackend count-oracle
What
automation-controller: InventorySource.source_vars lacks prevent_search, enabling zero-privilege cross-tenant extraction of inline inventory-plugin credentials via the credential_types FieldLookupBackend count-oracle
Why
The product provides different responses to incoming requests in a way that reveals internal state information to an unauthorized actor outside of the intended control sphere.
How
An attacker operating through a network path may attempt exploitation with low privileges. If successful, the issue may cause the confidentiality, integrity or availability impact described by the vendor.
What
automation-controller: InventorySource.source_vars lacks prevent_search, enabling zero-privilege cross-tenant extraction of inline inventory-plugin credentials via the credential_types FieldLookupBackend count-oracle
Why
The product provides different responses to incoming requests in a way that reveals internal state information to an unauthorized actor outside of the intended control sphere.
How
An attacker operating through a network path may attempt exploitation with low privileges. If successful, the issue may cause the confidentiality, integrity or availability impact described by the vendor.
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Exploit reality and attack path
CVSS severity, EPSS forecast probability, public exploit material and CISA-confirmed exploitation are separate signals.
Observed exploitation No confirmed evidence
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Confirmed exploitation and public exploit material are separate signals. Attacks can occur without public proof-of-concept or exploit code.No CISA KEV match was present at the last successful refresh. This means no confirmation from that source, not proof of no exploitation.
Public PoC / exploit material None recorded
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Confirmed exploitation and public exploit material are separate signals. Attacks can occur without public proof-of-concept or exploit code.No exploit-tagged reference or CISA SSVC proof-of-concept state is currently recorded. Research may still exist outside the structured feeds.
- Likely attack path
- a network path → Observable Response Discrepancy → cause the confidentiality, integrity or availability impact described by the vendor
- Attack surface
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low: a basic authenticated account is required
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low: no specialised conditions are recorded
- Security boundary
- Changed: exploitation can affect a different security authority
- Weakness
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CWE means Common Weakness Enumeration: a standard category for the underlying weakness. - CWE-204 ↗
CWE-204: Observable Response Discrepancy. The product provides different responses to incoming requests in a way that reveals internal state information to an unauthorized actor outside of the intended control sphere.
- CVSS vector
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CVSS means Common Vulnerability Scoring System. The vector records the metric values used to calculate technical severity. CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:NCommon Vulnerability Scoring System 3.1: the compact vector below is decoded into plain language.
AVNetworkAttack vector: The vulnerable component can be reached over a network.ACLowAttack complexity: No specialised conditions are required beyond attacker-controlled input.PRLowPrivileges required: The attacker needs basic user-level privileges.UINoneUser interaction: No action by another user is required.SChangedScope: The attack can affect a component governed by a different security authority.CHighConfidentiality impact: A successful attack can cause a major loss.INoneIntegrity impact: No direct loss is represented by this metric.ANoneAvailability impact: No direct loss is represented by this metric.- Post-exploitation / living off the land
- Stolen credentials, tokens and legitimate administration functions may provide continued access without deploying a large custom toolset.
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Patch and workaround
Operational remediation based on structured source evidence.
- Status
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Patch availability is based on structured fixed-version fields and authoritative update references. If no fix is verified, check the vendor advisory before making a change. - Patch available
- Fixed
- registry.redhat.io/ansible-automation-platform-27/controller-rhel9@sha256:0b4d286c39fbb3056643306df9e81c2d4727e005a551ab74c2cee0950f35bf25_amd64 as a component of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7
- registry.redhat.io/ansible-automation-platform-27/controller-rhel9@sha256:e0a869c7abe2af122a5fcc06b7c4d9ca3eec2693dde7b58c9b9ccea27f71dc6c_arm64 as a component of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7
- Action
- Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. For details on how to apply this update, refer to: https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_ansible_automation_platform/2.7#Upgrade
- Workaround
- No separate vendor workaround is recorded. Follow the linked advisory and validate the exact affected product and release.
Official vendor articles1 stored document
Linked articles are downloaded and versioned as source evidence. A CVE mention or approved update relationship does not, by itself, verify a fix for every product branch.
- CVE-2026-84475 - Red Hat Customer Portal →Original publisher ↗Searchable text snapshot · Captured 26 Sep 2026CVE-2026-84475 Description automation-controller: InventorySource.source_vars lacks prevent_search, enabling zero-privilege cross-tenant extraction of inline inventory-plugin credentials via the credential_types FieldLookupBackend count-oracle Statement This flaw affects automation-controller as shipped in Red Hat Ansi
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Evidence and provenance
Published 23 Sept 2026 · Last source change 24 Sept 2026, 05:58 UTC · CWE-204 · Observable Response Discrepancy
CVE recordRed Hat Product Security · OASIS CSAF 2.0
CVSS sourceOther authority
EPSS source Unavailable
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The date BlackTree first stored a score for this CVE from the daily FIRST EPSS feed.European sourceNo official EUVD mapping
Product sourceVendor CSAF · Red Hat Product Security
Remediation sourceVendor CSAF · Red Hat Product Security
CWE sourceCNA
NVD statusNVD status unavailable
Missing structured fields: official CVE record, canonical affected-version range. Missing data is not evidence of low risk; review the primary advisory.
Material change intelligence
View recent updates ↗What changed after publication
- Affected versionsThe structured affected or fixed version information changed.Red Hat Product Security ↗
- Before
- automation-controller.src as a component of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 · Fixed: registry.redhat.io/ansible-automation-platform-27/controller-rhel9@sha256:0b4d286c39fbb3056643306df9e81c2d4727e005a551ab74c2cee0950f35bf25_amd64 as a component of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7; registry.redhat.io/ansible-automation-platform-27/controller-rhel9@sha256:e0a869c7abe2af122a5fcc06b7c4d9ca3eec2693dde7b58c9b9ccea27f71dc6c_arm64 as a component of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7
- After
- automation-controller.src as a component of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 · Fixed: Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied. For details on how to apply this update, refer to: https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_ansible_automation_platform/2.7#Upgrade
- Catalogue recordCVE added to the BlackTree catalogue.Authoritative vendor CSAF advisory ↗
Vendor disclosed CVE identifier
Vendor remediation published
Fixed release recorded from official guidance
Technical terms and abbreviations used in this report
- CVE
- Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures: the public identifier for one disclosed vulnerability.
- CVSS
- Common Vulnerability Scoring System: a technical severity framework; it is not patching priority by itself.
- EPSS
- Exploit Prediction Scoring System: FIRST's estimate of the probability that exploitation activity will be observed in the next 30 days; it is a forecast, not confirmation.
- CWE
- Common Weakness Enumeration: the standard category describing the underlying software or hardware weakness.
- CNA
- CVE Numbering Authority: an organisation authorised to assign and publish CVE records.
- CISA ADP
- Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Authorized Data Publisher: structured enrichment added to a CVE record.
- NVD
- National Vulnerability Database: NIST's enrichment service for CVE records.
- CERT / CSIRT
- A computer security incident response team that publishes warnings or coordinates incident response.
- PoC
- Proof of concept: public material that demonstrates or helps reproduce exploitation.
- CSAF
- Common Security Advisory Framework: a machine-readable format for security advisories.
- LoTL
- Living off the land: abuse of legitimate tools or system functions during an attack.