Description
A flaw was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform's automation-
controller. The AWX_TASK_ENV setting accepts arbitrary environment variable
keys with no restriction, and its values are applied directly to the running
automation controller web and task processes rather than only to sandboxed
execution environments. A user with the system administrator role can set
variables such as REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE, HTTPS_PROXY, SSLKEYLOGFILE, OPENSSL_CONF,
or LD_PRELOAD that reconfigure the control-plane process TLS trust store,
key-logging, OpenSSL engine, or dynamic linker. This enables silent interception
of the outbound TLS the control plane uses to fetch external secret-store
credentials and Red Hat subscription and Insights secrets, arbitrary file write
of TLS session keys, and potential native code execution in the control-plane
process, escalating an application administrator to compromise of the control
plane and all tenant secrets.
Published: n/a
Score: 8.7 High
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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History

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 00:15:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description A flaw was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform's automation- controller. The AWX_TASK_ENV setting accepts arbitrary environment variable keys with no restriction, and its values are applied directly to the running automation controller web and task processes rather than only to sandboxed execution environments. A user with the system administrator role can set variables such as REQUESTS_CA_BUNDLE, HTTPS_PROXY, SSLKEYLOGFILE, OPENSSL_CONF, or LD_PRELOAD that reconfigure the control-plane process TLS trust store, key-logging, OpenSSL engine, or dynamic linker. This enables silent interception of the outbound TLS the control plane uses to fetch external secret-store credentials and Red Hat subscription and Insights secrets, arbitrary file write of TLS session keys, and potential native code execution in the control-plane process, escalating an application administrator to compromise of the control plane and all tenant secrets.
Title automation-controller: automation-controller-container: automation-controller: the AWX_TASK_ENV setting applies arbitrary environment variables to the control-plane web and task processes, enabling TLS interception of external credentials and code execution
First Time appeared Redhat
Redhat ansible Automation Platform
Weaknesses CWE-15
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.6::el9
Vendors & Products Redhat
Redhat ansible Automation Platform
References
Metrics threat_severity

None

 cvssV3_1

{'score': 8.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N'}

threat_severity

Important

Subscriptions

Redhat Ansible Automation Platform
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Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2026-09-23T18:44:27Z

Links: CVE-2026-84679 - Bugzilla

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Updated: 2026-09-24T01:45:13Z

Weaknesses