Advisory severityMedium4.1Red Hat Linux

Medium [CVE-2026-71462] CUSTOM_VENV_PATH setting provides filesystem path-existence oracle on control pod

This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-71462 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-2026-71462 Source published Sep 23, 2026Source updated Sep 6, 2026

VulniPulse record published Sep 23, 2026Record updated Sep 25, 2026

CVE-2026-71462

Affected products & platforms

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Summary

StringListPathField.to_internal_value() calls os.path.exists() on unbounded user-supplied paths. 200 vs 400 response reveals existence of arbitrary absolute paths on the controller-web pod.

Tenant superuser can confirm /etc/tower/SECRET_KEY, k8s service-account token, receptor sockets, ConfigMap mount points. Mainly impactful on managed AAP (ansiblecloud.com) where tenant admin!= host admin.

Red Hat severity: Moderate — CVSS 4.1 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N). Weakness: CWE-204.

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 2.6; Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7. Red Hat fixing advisory: RHSA-2026:71114, RHSA-2026:71113, RHSA-2026:71179, RHSA-2026:71177.

Affected versions

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

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Fixed versions

automation-controller-0:4.6.33-1.el8ap
automation-controller-0:4.6.33-1.el9ap
automation-controller-0:4.7.17-1.el9ap
ansible-automation-platform-26/controller-rhel9:1789673739
ansible-automation-platform-27/controller-rhel9:1789580684
RHSA-2026:71114
RHSA-2026:71113
RHSA-2026:71179
RHSA-2026:71177

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Mitigation

Upgrade to a fixed release: automation-controller-0:4.6.33-1.el8ap, automation-controller-0:4.6.33-1.el9ap, automation-controller-0:4.7.17-1.el9ap, ansible-automation-platform-26/controller-rhel9:1789673739, ansible-automation-platform-27/controller-rhel9:1789580684, RHSA-2026:71114. That is the remediation for this advisory.

The vendor advisory may list additional interim mitigations or workarounds not captured here — review it before change work.

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