CVE-2026-12701: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2

Critical severity, CVSS 9.0. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A path traversal vulnerability was found in pulpcore. The relative_path_validator function only verifies that content paths do not begin with "/" but fails to block directory traversal sequences such as "../" anywhere in the path. An authenticated administrator can craft a relative_path containing embedded traversal sequences (e.g., "looking/normal/../../../../etc/shadow") that escapes the intended export directory during FilesystemExport operations. Because the file content is also user-controlled (uploaded artifact), this allows arbitrary file write to any location writable by the Pulp service user, potentially leading to service compromise or further system exploitation.

Affected products

Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2
Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 For Rhel 8: before 0:3.49.63-2.el8ap (fixed in 0:3.49.63-2.el8ap)
Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 For Rhel 9: before 0:3.49.63-2.el9ap (fixed in 0:3.49.63-2.el9ap)
Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6: before 1783979593 (fixed in 1783979593)
Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 For Rhel 9: before 0:3.49.63-2.el9ap (fixed in 0:3.49.63-2.el9ap)
Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7: before 1783919521 (fixed in 1783919521)
Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.16 For Rhel 8: before 0:3.49.39-2.el8pc (fixed in 0:3.49.39-2.el8pc)
Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.16 For Rhel 9: before 0:3.49.39-2.el9pc (fixed in 0:3.49.39-2.el9pc)
Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.17 For Rhel 9: before 0:3.63.21-2.el9pc (fixed in 0:3.63.21-2.el9pc)
Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.18 For Rhel 9: before 0:3.73.30-2.el9pc (fixed in 0:3.73.30-2.el9pc)
Red Hat Red Hat Satellite 6.19 For Rhel 9: before 0:3.85.15-5.el9pc (fixed in 0:3.85.15-5.el9pc)
Red Hat Red Hat Update Infrastructure 4 For Cloud Providers
Red Hat Red Hat Update Infrastructure 5

Published 2026-07-20. Last modified 2026-07-22.