Affects widely used Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and enables RCE and credential abuse across managed hosts—enterprise-wide disruption risk.
CVE-2026-84474
Ansible Automation Platform RCE via exposed provisioning secret and X-Forwarded-For spoofing
Is CVE-2026-84474 being exploited?
Not confirmed. CVE-2026-84474 does not appear in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, which records only exploitation that has been observed and reported publicly. That is evidence of absence of a report, not evidence the flaw is unattacked. EPSS currently estimates a 0.80% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.
How severe is CVE-2026-84474?
CVE-2026-84474 is rated Critical with a CVSS score of 9.9. Severity describes how bad exploitation would be, not how likely it is: pair it with exploitation evidence before deciding what to patch first.
Is there a patch for CVE-2026-84474?
Yes. A fix has been recorded for CVE-2026-84474. The vendor advisory is the authority on the exact fixed version — apply it from there rather than from a summary.
What does CVE-2026-84474 affect?
CVE-2026-84474 affects Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (automation-controller), Deployments behind AAP gateway with empty proxy allow-list. Confirm the exact affected versions against the vendor advisory before deciding you are exposed.
What should I do about CVE-2026-84474?
Apply Red Hat security updates, restrict proxy allow-list, rotate provisioning secrets.
Exploitation status reflects CISA's KEV catalog as we last synced it. Check the catalog directly.
Read host_config_key and spoof X-Forwarded-For to run job templates on arbitrary managed hosts, resulting in credential theft, privilege escalation, and RCE.
Immediate action required