A flaw was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform's automation-controller. A user
with the delegated Instance Group Admin role on a container group can set a free-form
pod specification override that is deep-merged, without filtering, into every job pod
launched on that group. The only hardening applied is forcing
automountServiceAccountToken to false, which does not remove an explicitly declared
projected serviceAccountToken volume or secret volume mounts. A non-superuser can
therefore cause the kubelet to mint a ServiceAccount token for the control-plane
automation-controller service account into the job container and mount arbitrary
secrets from the control-plane namespace, obtaining the control-plane service-account
identity on the Kubernetes API and cleartext control-plane secrets (including the
platform database password and Django SECRET_KEY), leading to full platform data
compromise.
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Description A flaw was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform's automation-controller. A user with the delegated Instance Group Admin role on a container group can set a free-form pod specification override that is deep-merged, without filtering, into every job pod launched on that group. The only hardening applied is forcing automountServiceAccountToken to false, which does not remove an explicitly declared projected serviceAccountToken volume or secret volume mounts. A non-superuser can therefore cause the kubelet to mint a ServiceAccount token for the control-plane automation-controller service account into the job container and mount arbitrary secrets from the control-plane namespace, obtaining the control-plane service-account identity on the Kubernetes API and cleartext control-plane secrets (including the platform database password and Django SECRET_KEY), leading to full platform data compromise.
Title automation-controller: automation-controller-container: automation-controller: container group pod_spec_override mints the automation-controller ServiceAccount token and mounts control-plane namespace secrets into job pods, bypassing automountServiceAccountToken:false (control-plane secret and identity compromise)
First Time appeared Redhat
Redhat ansible Automation Platform
Weaknesses CWE-266
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.6::el9
Vendors & Products Redhat
Redhat ansible Automation Platform
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cvssV3_1

{'score': 8.7, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N'}

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Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2026-09-23T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2026-84708 - Bugzilla

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