Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Notification Backend server-side request forgery

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A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. It has been classified as problematic. This affects an unknown function of the component Notification Backend. The manipulation leads to server-side request forgery. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2026-71366. The attack can be initiated remotely. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (unknown version). It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects an unknown code block of the component Notification Backend. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a server-side request forgery vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-918. The web server receives a URL or similar request from an upstream component and retrieves the contents of this URL, but it does not sufficiently ensure that the request is being sent to the expected destination. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

A server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability was found in multiple AWX notification backends. The webhook, Mattermost, Rocket.Chat, and Grafana notification backends use notification template URLs as direct HTTP request targets without validating the target address against private, loopback, or reserved IP ranges. An organization notification administrator can create notification templates pointing to internal or loopback addresses, causing the AWX control node to issue HTTP requests to services that are not externally accessible. Additionally, the webhook notification backend follows HTTP redirects and resends configured Basic Authentication credentials to redirect targets regardless of host change, allowing an attacker to exfiltrate notification credentials by redirecting to an attacker-controlled host. The Grafana backend sends its API key in the Authorization header to the configured target URL.

The advisory is shared at access.redhat.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-71366 since 08/06/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. The exploitation needs additional levels of successful authentication. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/24/2026).

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

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• Automation Software

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• Red Hat

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• Ansible Automation Platform

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• open-source

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• Vendor: https://www.redhat.com/

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