RHSA-2026:66482
Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2026-09-10 15:33 - Updated: 2026-09-10 22:01Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Execution Environments Update
Severity
Moderate
Notes
Topic: An update is now available for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Execution Environments
Details: 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.
Update(s) and Fix(es):
* Rebuild for base image security fixes
Terms of Use: This content is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). If you distribute this content, or a modified version of it, you must provide attribution to Red Hat Inc. and provide a link to the original.
A container privilege escalation flaw was found in certain Ansible Automation Platform images. This issue arises from the /etc/passwd file being created with group-writable permissions during the build process. In certain conditions, an attacker who can execute commands within an affected container, even as a non-root user, can leverage their membership in the root group to modify the /etc/passwd file. This vulnerability allows an attacker to add a new user with any arbitrary UID, including UID 0, gaining full root privileges within the container.
6.4 (Medium)
Affected products
Fixed
4 products
| Product | Identifier | Version | Remediation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unresolved product id: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.16:registry.redhat.io/ansible-automation-platform/ee-minimal-rhel9@sha256:010515c2961a0678ac9d9cc8433d070eafee3a42cbd912cc33b2a90cf4bdfeab_arm64 | — |
Vendor Fix
fix
|
|
| Unresolved product id: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.16:registry.redhat.io/ansible-automation-platform/ee-minimal-rhel9@sha256:50b87a3685b1bf23f10a6363b70d51908b68b1ee06233d26cac99cc2c9158462_ppc64le | — |
Vendor Fix
fix
|
|
| Unresolved product id: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.16:registry.redhat.io/ansible-automation-platform/ee-minimal-rhel9@sha256:810572e996b23324aa78100a2346bda8fb996207ad9f15331a846092e2127c67_amd64 | — |
Vendor Fix
fix
|
|
| Unresolved product id: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.16:registry.redhat.io/ansible-automation-platform/ee-minimal-rhel9@sha256:c60bade98d891acd3d4ba3e2a8a76ccb3bb5fe346c0d61392c0af040bdb5428d_s390x | — |
Vendor Fix
fix
|
Threats
Impact
Moderate
References
8 references
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