Vulnerability in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8

[ Description ]Official description

A flaw was found in the Ansible Automation Platform automation-controller. In the shipped production configuration, the Controller trusts the client-supplied X-Forwarded-For header as the request's client IP without verifying that it originated from a trusted proxy, and selects the leftmost (attacker-controlled) header value. As a result, an attacker can forge the source IP address recorded for their requests in the Controller's audit and access logs, degrading the integrity of forensic and SIEM attribution. The flaw does not grant additional access.

[ Fixes ]Fixes and patches

No fix or interim patch is linked from our sources yet. Check the vendor references below and limit exposure of affected systems until a fix is available.

[ Advisories ]Government CERT advisories

• BSI CERT-Bund23 Sep 2026WID-SEC-2026-3555

  Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (automation-controller): Multiple vulnerabilities Translated from German

  CVE-2026-84713CVE-2026-71459CVE-2026-84475+58 more CVEs

[ References ]References

• access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71113
• access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71114
• access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71177
• access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71179
• access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-84718
• bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi