CVE-2026-16544

Awx: websocket eventconsumer missing authorization for inventory_update_events, project_update_events, and system_job_events allows cross-organization stdout disclosure

State
Published
Severity
6.5 Medium
Published
Jul 22, 2026
Updated
Jul 22, 2026
Reserved
Jul 22, 2026

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Description

A flaw was found in AWX. The websocket event consumer performs RBAC authorization checks only for event groups that are mapped in the consumer_access() function (job_events, workflow_events, ad_hoc_command_events). Three event groups - inventory_update_events, project_update_events, and system_job_events — are not mapped, causing the authorization check to be skipped. Any authenticated user can subscribe to these unmapped websocket event groups for any object ID and receive real-time stdout output from jobs belonging to organizations they have no access to. This is an incomplete remediation of CVE-2020-10698.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.16.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nredhat

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2Red Hat
    Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2Red Hat

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