Automation-controller: automation-controller: instance install_bundle issues 10-year, non-revocable receptor mesh-ca certificates for caller-chosen (and case-variant impersonating) hostnames
What fixes it
No source in this snapshot names a fixed version. The vendor advisories under References are the place to check.
Description
A flaw was found in the automation-controller instance install-bundle endpoint. When a System Administrator downloads an execution/hop node's install bundle, the controller signs an X.509 certificate with the receptor mesh certificate authority in which the Common Name, DNS subject-alternative-name, and receptor node-id are taken verbatim from the caller-chosen instance hostname, with a hard-coded ten-year validity, a random serial, and no issuance log or revocation list. Because the hostname charset validator is case-insensitive while the uniqueness validator is case-sensitive, an administrator can register a case variant of an existing control node's hostname and obtain a mesh-CA-signed certificate that TLS peers, which match hostnames case-insensitively, accept as that control node. In managed/hosted deployments — where the customer holds controller superuser but the platform operator runs the mesh — this yields a long-lived, non-revocable mesh peer credential and, with an on-path position, TLS impersonation or interception of control/hybrid mesh nodes. It does not grant direct remote code execution, because receptor work submission is gated by a separate signing key not included in the bundle.
Text from CVE List
Affected versions 5
- Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8unaffected: 0:4.6.33-1.el8ap and laterCVE List
- Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9unaffected: 0:4.6.33-1.el9ap and laterCVE List
- Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9unaffected: 0:4.7.17-1.el9ap and laterCVE List
- Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6unaffected: 1789673739 and laterCVE List
- Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7unaffected: 1789580684 and laterCVE List
References 6
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71113Advisoryvia CVE List
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71114Advisoryvia CVE List
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71177Advisoryvia CVE List
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71179Advisoryvia CVE List
- access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-84716Advisoryvia CVE List
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2527199Referencevia CVE List