Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform galaxy_ng server-side request forgery

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A vulnerability described as problematic has been identified in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. This affects an unknown part of the component galaxy_ng. Such manipulation leads to server-side request forgery. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2026-79717. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit.

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A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (unknown version) and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the component galaxy_ng. 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, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

A server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability was found in galaxy_ng, the Ansible Galaxy server plugin for Pulp. An authenticated user with namespace management permissions can set a namespace avatar URL to an arbitrary address, including internal networks, loopback, or cloud instance metadata endpoints. A background worker fetches that URL without checking the destination, which lets the attacker probe internal services and enumerate reachable IP addresses. The HTTP client is also configured without an overall timeout, so a slow or non-responsive target can pin workers and cause a denial of service.

The advisory is available at access.redhat.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-79717 since 08/25/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. Additional levels of successful authentication are necessary for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/25/2026).

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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