Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7 Container Release Update
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform provides an enterprise framework for building, deploying and managing IT automation at scale. IT Managers can provide top-down guidelines on how automation is applied to individual teams, while automation developers retain the freedom to write tasks that leverage existing knowledge without the overhead. Ansible Automation Platform makes it possible for users across an organization to share, vet, and manage automation content by means of a simple, powerful, and agentless language. For details about this release, refer to the release notes listed in the References section.
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
This security advisory for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7 addresses several vulnerabilities. The most critical is CVE-2026-11332, an argument injection vulnerability in ansible-galaxy role install that allows arbitrary code execution. Other fixed vulnerabilities include a cross-site scripting issue in receptor's HTML parsing (CVE-2026-27136), a denial of service via excessive DNS SAN processing in golang crypto/x509 (CVE-2026-27145), and a privilege escalation due to incorrect Punycode label processing in golang.org/x/net/idna (CVE-2026-39821). The advisory covers multiple related CVEs and updates container images and packages for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7 on RHEL 9 and 10 architectures. The vendor has provided official fixes and recommends applying the updates as documented.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation of CVE-2026-11332 could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code during ansible-galaxy role installation. Other vulnerabilities may lead to cross-site scripting attacks, denial of service conditions, or privilege escalation within components of the platform. These issues could compromise the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of automation workflows managed by the platform.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released official security updates for Ansible Automation Platform 2.7 addressing these vulnerabilities. Users should apply the updates following Red Hat's documented procedures and ensure all prior relevant errata are installed. No additional mitigation steps are indicated beyond applying the vendor-provided fixes.
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7 Container Release Update
Description
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform provides an enterprise framework for building, deploying and managing IT automation at scale. IT Managers can provide top-down guidelines on how automation is applied to individual teams, while automation developers retain the freedom to write tasks that leverage existing knowledge without the overhead. Ansible Automation Platform makes it possible for users across an organization to share, vet, and manage automation content by means of a simple, powerful, and agentless language. For details about this release, refer to the release notes listed in the References section.
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Weaknesses
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Machine-generated threat intelligence
Technical Analysis
This security advisory for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7 addresses several vulnerabilities. The most critical is CVE-2026-11332, an argument injection vulnerability in ansible-galaxy role install that allows arbitrary code execution. Other fixed vulnerabilities include a cross-site scripting issue in receptor's HTML parsing (CVE-2026-27136), a denial of service via excessive DNS SAN processing in golang crypto/x509 (CVE-2026-27145), and a privilege escalation due to incorrect Punycode label processing in golang.org/x/net/idna (CVE-2026-39821). The advisory covers multiple related CVEs and updates container images and packages for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7 on RHEL 9 and 10 architectures. The vendor has provided official fixes and recommends applying the updates as documented.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation of CVE-2026-11332 could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code during ansible-galaxy role installation. Other vulnerabilities may lead to cross-site scripting attacks, denial of service conditions, or privilege escalation within components of the platform. These issues could compromise the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of automation workflows managed by the platform.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released official security updates for Ansible Automation Platform 2.7 addressing these vulnerabilities. Users should apply the updates following Red Hat's documented procedures and ensure all prior relevant errata are installed. No additional mitigation steps are indicated beyond applying the vendor-provided fixes.
Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Csaf Category
- csaf_security_advisory
- Csaf Version
- 2.0
- Publisher
- Red Hat Product Security
- Advisory Id
- RHSA-2026:42080
- Cve Count
- 4
- Additional Cves
- ["CVE-2026-27136","CVE-2026-27145","CVE-2026-39821"]
- Cvss Version
- 3.1
Threat ID: 6a5e79f62a4a8d59899d30b8
Added to database: 07/20/2026, 19:41:42 UTC
Last enriched: 08/14/2026, 22:57:43 UTC
Last updated: 09/04/2026, 01:59:40 UTC
Views: 113
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