controller. The HTML view of job, ad hoc command, project update, and inventory
update standard output escapes HTML metacharacters but does not remove ANSI
terminal escape sequences before conversion to HTML. An ANSI OSC 8 hyperlink
sequence in the output is expanded into an HTML anchor whose href is not scheme-
filtered or escaped, so a low-privileged user who can produce output -- or an
external party whose data a playbook echoes -- can embed a javascript: link that
is rendered into a text/html response with no Content-Security-Policy. When a
higher-privileged user views the output page and clicks the link, attacker-
controlled JavaScript executes in their authenticated session, allowing actions
as that user up to full platform takeover.
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| Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
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| Description | A flaw was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform's automation- controller. The HTML view of job, ad hoc command, project update, and inventory update standard output escapes HTML metacharacters but does not remove ANSI terminal escape sequences before conversion to HTML. An ANSI OSC 8 hyperlink sequence in the output is expanded into an HTML anchor whose href is not scheme- filtered or escaped, so a low-privileged user who can produce output -- or an external party whose data a playbook echoes -- can embed a javascript: link that is rendered into a text/html response with no Content-Security-Policy. When a higher-privileged user views the output page and clicks the link, attacker- controlled JavaScript executes in their authenticated session, allowing actions as that user up to full platform takeover. | |
| Title | Automation-controller: automation-controller-container: automation-controller: stored cross-site scripting in the job stdout html view via ansi osc 8 hyperlink sequences (javascript: anchor) enabling session takeover | |
| First Time appeared |
Redhat
Redhat ansible Automation Platform |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-79 | |
| CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2 | |
| Vendors & Products |
Redhat
Redhat ansible Automation Platform |
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| Metrics |
cvssV3_1
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published:
Updated: 2026-09-23T19:02:18.879Z
Reserved: 2026-09-01T22:29:34.109Z
Link: CVE-2026-84683
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Status : Received
Published: 2026-09-23T20:17:17.403
Modified: 2026-09-23T20:17:17.403
Link: CVE-2026-84683
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