Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 YAML File path traversal

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A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 and classified as critical. This affects an unknown part of the component YAML File Handler. The manipulation results in path traversal. This vulnerability is reported as CVE-2026-52902. The attack requires a local approach. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2. It has been classified as critical. Affected is an unknown code of the component YAML File Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. This is going to have an impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

A path traversal vulnerability was found in awxkit, the CLI tool for AWX. The YAML !include directive does not sanitize file paths, allowing an attacker to craft a malicious YAML file that reads arbitrary YAML-formatted files from the local filesystem when a user imports it using "awx --conf.format yaml import". This is a client-side vulnerability requiring user interaction.

The advisory is shared for download at access.redhat.com. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-52902 since 06/09/2026. The exploitability is told to be difficult. The attack needs to be approached locally. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $0-$5k (estimation calculated on 06/09/2026). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1006.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2026-35389). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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• Automation Software

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• Red Hat

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• Ansible Automation Platform

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• 2

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• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.redhat.com/

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