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Advisory severityMedium4.7Red Hat Linux

Medium [CVE-2026-52902] Awxkit: path traversal via yaml !include directive

This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-52902 affecting 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 for RHEL 9.

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CVE-2026-52902
Affected products & platforms
Red Hat LinuxUnclassified
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Summary

A path traversal vulnerability was found in awxkit, the CLI tool for AWX. The YAML!include directive does not sanitize file paths, allowing an attacker to craft a malicious YAML file that reads arbitrary YAML-formatted files from the local filesystem when a user imports it using "awx --conf.format yaml import".

This is a client-side vulnerability requiring user interaction. awxkit as a bundled Python dependency found in ee-supported and platform-resource-runner containers for ansible-automation-platform and as part of the automation-controller RPM. Red Hat severity: Moderate — CVSS 4.7 (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N).

Weakness: CWE-22. Affected Red Hat products: 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 for RHEL 9; Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7 for RHEL 10; Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7 for RHEL 9; Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.

Red Hat fixing advisory: RHSA-2026:59135, RHSA-2026:59136, RHSA-2026:59137.

Affected versions

No affected-version range was extracted from the source record. The vendor advisory is authoritative — check it before change work.

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 20 days ago·verify at source

Fixed versions
  • automation-controller-0:4.6.32-1.el8ap
  • automation-controller-0:4.6.32-1.el9ap
  • automation-controller-0:4.7.16-1.el9ap
  • automation-controller-cli-0:4.8.6-1.el10ap
  • automation-controller-cli-0:4.8.6-1.el9ap
  • RHSA-2026:59135
  • RHSA-2026:59136
  • RHSA-2026:59137

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 20 days ago·verify at source

Mitigation checklist

Recommended fix / mitigation
  • The following practices would help for avoiding exposure to this flaw: 1) Prioritize the default JSON import format instead of YAML. 2) Avoid importing YAML files from untrusted sources.

Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 20 days ago·verify at source

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