Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Content Serving Application cross site scripting

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A vulnerability labeled as problematic has been found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Satellite, Update Infrastructure for Cloud Providers and Update Infrastructure. This impacts an unknown function of the component Content Serving Application. Such manipulation leads to cross site scripting. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2026-84232. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Satellite, Update Infrastructure for Cloud Providers and Update Infrastructure (the affected version unknown). It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown part of the component Content Serving Application. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross site scripting vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-79. The product does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes user-controllable input before it is placed in output that is used as a web page that is served to other users. Impacted is integrity. CVE summarizes:

A flaw was found in pulpcore's content serving application. Files uploaded to Pulp file-type repositories are served with their original content type (e.g., text/html for .html files, image/svg+xml for .svg files) and without a Content-Disposition: attachment header when using local filesystem storage. An authenticated user or attacker with content upload permissions can upload a specially crafted HTML or SVG file containing JavaScript, which executes in the browser of any user who visits the file URL, resulting in stored cross-site scripting (XSS) in the context of the host application.

The advisory is shared for download at access.redhat.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-84232 since 09/01/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. 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 09/01/2026). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.007.

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
• Satellite
• Update Infrastructure
• Update Infrastructure for Cloud Providers

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• open-source

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• Vendor: https://www.redhat.com/

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