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CVE-2026-126642

Awx: webhook credential assignment omits use_role check, exposing another user's token

6.5 Medium

An incorrect authorization flaw was found in AWX, the automation controller component of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. The API access classes for JobTemplate and WorkflowJobTemplate do not check the caller's Credential use_role when assigning the single-valued webhook_credential foreign key: JobTemplateAccess.can_add/can_change and WorkflowJobTemplateAccess.can_change in awx/main/access.py omit the check_related('webhook_credential', Credential, ..., role_field='use_role') call that UnifiedCredentialsMixin.can_attach performs for the normal many-to-many credentials relationship, and the serializer validates only the credential's type and namespace. A user who may administer their own job template (or workflow job template) and use its project and inventory can therefore attach a webhook token credential (for example a GitLab token) that they do not have use permission on. The template administrator can retrieve the template's webhook key; a subsequent webhook event causes AWX to decrypt the attached token and send it in the request header (for GitLab, PRIVATE-TOKEN) to a status URL derived from the event payload, disclosing the victim's token to a destination the attacker can influence. This may disclose another user's personal access token and allow whatever actions that token permits.

Attack profile

How easy it is to exploit

Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges needed
Low
User interaction
None

What an attacker can affect

Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None

Exploit likelihood

0.28%Scored on 2026-11-12. The trend appears after a second daily score.

What each source reports

CVE List Score used6.5

Awx: webhook credential assignment omits use_role check, exposing another user's token

An incorrect authorization flaw was found in AWX, the automation controller component of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. The API access classes for JobTemplate and WorkflowJobTemplate do not check the caller's Credential use_role when assigning the single-valued webhook_credential foreign key: JobTemplateAccess.can_add/can_change and WorkflowJobTemplateAccess.can_change in awx/main/access.py omit the check_related('webhook_credential', Credential, ..., role_field='use_role') call that UnifiedCredentialsMixin.can_attach performs for the normal many-to-many credentials relationship, and the serializer validates only the credential's type and namespace. A user who may administer their own job template (or workflow job template) and use its project and inventory can therefore attach a webhook token credential (for example a GitLab token) that they do not have use permission on. The template administrator can retrieve the template's webhook key; a subsequent webhook event causes AWX to decrypt the attached token and send it in the request header (for GitLab, PRIVATE-TOKEN) to a status URL derived from the event payload, disclosing the victim's token to a destination the attacker can influence. This may disclose another user's personal access token and allow whatever actions that token permits.

Record
CVE-2026-126642
CVSS 3.1
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weakness
CWE-862
Updated
2026-11-12
EUVDEUVD-2026-1243306.5

An incorrect authorization flaw was found in AWX, the automation controller component of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. The API access classes for JobTemplate and WorkflowJobTemplate do not check the caller's Credential use_role when assigning the single-valued webhook_credential foreign key: JobTemplateAccess.can_add/can_change and WorkflowJobTemplateAccess.can_change in awx/main/access.py omit the check_related('webhook_credential', Credential, ..., role_field='use_role') call that UnifiedCredentialsMixin.can_attach performs for the normal many-to-many credentials relationship, and the serializer validates only the credential's type and namespace. A user who may administer their own job template (or workflow job template) and use its project and inventory can therefore attach a webhook token credential (for example a GitLab token) that they do not have use permission on. The template administrator can retrieve the template's webhook key; a subsequent webhook event causes AWX to decrypt the attached token and send it in the request header (for GitLab, PRIVATE-TOKEN) to a status URL derived from the event payload, disclosing the victim's token to a destination the attacker can influence. This may disclose another user's personal access token and allow whatever actions that token permits.

Record
EUVD-2026-124330
CVSS 3.1
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Updated
2026-11-12
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-c92q-w8v5-r4hp6.5

An incorrect authorization flaw was found in AWX, the automation controller component of Red Hat...

An incorrect authorization flaw was found in AWX, the automation controller component of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. The API access classes for JobTemplate and WorkflowJobTemplate do not check the caller's Credential use_role when assigning the single-valued webhook_credential foreign key: JobTemplateAccess.can_add/can_change and WorkflowJobTemplateAccess.can_change in awx/main/access.py omit the check_related('webhook_credential', Credential, ..., role_field='use_role') call that UnifiedCredentialsMixin.can_attach performs for the normal many-to-many credentials relationship, and the serializer validates only the credential's type and namespace. A user who may administer their own job template (or workflow job template) and use its project and inventory can therefore attach a webhook token credential (for example a GitLab token) that they do not have use permission on. The template administrator can retrieve the template's webhook key; a subsequent webhook event causes AWX to decrypt the attached token and send it in the request header (for GitLab, PRIVATE-TOKEN) to a status URL derived from the event payload, disclosing the victim's token to a destination the attacker can influence. This may disclose another user's personal access token and allow whatever actions that token permits.

Record
GHSA-c92q-w8v5-r4hp
CVSS 3.1
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weakness
CWE-862
Updated
2026-11-12
NVD6.5

An incorrect authorization flaw was found in AWX, the automation controller component of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. The API access classes for JobTemplate and WorkflowJobTemplate do not check the caller's Credential use_role when assigning the single-valued webhook_credential foreign key: JobTemplateAccess.can_add/can_change and WorkflowJobTemplateAccess.can_change in awx/main/access.py omit the check_related('webhook_credential', Credential, ..., role_field='use_role') call that UnifiedCredentialsMixin.can_attach performs for the normal many-to-many credentials relationship, and the serializer validates only the credential's type and namespace. A user who may administer their own job template (or workflow job template) and use its project and inventory can therefore attach a webhook token credential (for example a GitLab token) that they do not have use permission on. The template administrator can retrieve the template's webhook key; a subsequent webhook event causes AWX to decrypt the attached token and send it in the request header (for GitLab, PRIVATE-TOKEN) to a status URL derived from the event payload, disclosing the victim's token to a destination the attacker can influence. This may disclose another user's personal access token and allow whatever actions that token permits.

Record
CVE-2026-126642
CVSS 3.1
6.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Weakness
CWE-862
Updated
2026-11-12

Affected products

History

History
RecordedChangedSources
publishedEUVD, NVD
publishedEUVD
products, references, severity, titleCVE List
aliases, cwes, references, severity, titleGitHub Advisories
first indexedEUVD

Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.

In short

CVE-2026-126642 is a medium vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2, published November 12, 2026. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 0.28%, the 20th percentile. No source names a fixed version.

References

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