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Description

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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2026-06-09 | Published 2026-06-09 | Updated 2026-06-09 | Assigner redhat




MEDIUM: 4.7CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Problem types

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Product status

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affected

Default status
affected

Timeline

2026-04-14:Reported to Red Hat.
2026-06-09:Made public.

References

access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-52902 vdb-entry

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2486729 (RHBZ#2486729) issue-tracking

cve.org (CVE-2026-52902)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2026-52902)

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