Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform/Satellite 6 Bearer Token Refresh improper authentication

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A vulnerability identified as problematic has been detected in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Satellite 6. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Bearer Token Refresh. The manipulation leads to improper authentication. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2026-103869. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Satellite 6 (affected version not known). It has been rated as problematic. This issue affects some unknown functionality of the component Bearer Token Refresh. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a improper authentication vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-287. When an actor claims to have a given identity, the product does not prove or insufficiently proves that the claim is correct. Impacted is confidentiality. The summary by CVE is:

A flaw was found in pulp-ansible's bearer-token refresh for collection remotes. The access token is kept in one module-level variable and reused for every token download in that worker. A user who can sync an Ansible remote that uses token refresh, and can point that remote at a server they control, receives an access token obtained for a different remote, and can reuse it at the service that issued it. Content stored in Pulp is not changed, and the service is not stopped.

It is possible to read the advisory at access.redhat.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2026-103869 since 10/01/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 10/07/2026).

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
• Satellite 6

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• open-source

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• Vendor: https://www.redhat.com/

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