CVE-2026-84486

A flaw was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform's automation- controller. Four debug views that trigger the internal task, dependency, and workflow schedulers are configured to allow any user (including unauthenticated clients) and are routed in production builds because their URL include is not gated on the debug setting. An unauthenticated remote attacker can repeatedly invoke these endpoints to acquire the cluster-wide scheduler advisory lock; because the legitimate scheduler acquires the same lock without waiting, the attacker causes real scheduler runs to be skipped, stalling job dispatch for all tenants, while also consuming controller web workers. The debug root view additionally discloses the list of debug endpoints to unauthenticated callers.

CVSS v3 8.2 HIGH

8.2^/10

CVSS v3 : HIGH

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 4.2

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact LOW

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71113
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71177
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71179
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-84486
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2527085

Configurations

No configuration.

History

24 Sep 2026, 06:17

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New CVE

Information

Published : 2026-09-23 19:19

Updated : 2026-09-24 06:17

NVD link : CVE-2026-84486

Mitre link : CVE-2026-84486

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-84486

JSON object : View

Products Affected

No product.

CWE

CWE-489

Active Debug Code

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