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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.3

CVE-2024-9620 json

Event-driven automation in ansible automation platform (aap): ansible event-driven automation (eda) lacks encryption

published 2024-10-08 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2024-50448

cvss
5.3
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 4%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A flaw was found in Event-Driven Automation (EDA) in Ansible Automation Platform (AAP), which lacks encryption of sensitive information. An attacker with network access could exploit this vulnerability by sniffing the plaintext data transmitted between the EDA and AAP. An attacker with system access could exploit this vulnerability by reading the plaintext data stored in EDA and AAP databases.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-9620 updated cvss 5.3

Event-Driven Automation in Ansible Automation Platform (AAP): Ansible Event-Driven Automation (EDA) lacks encryption

  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 event_driven
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
yes
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

0.16% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 4% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Affected products

  • Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-319 Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

References

Sources

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