RHSA-2026:94101 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,
which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability
from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform provides an enterprise framework for
building, deploying and managing IT automation at scale. IT Managers can
provide top-down guidelines on how automation is applied to individual
teams, while automation developers retain the freedom to write tasks that
leverage existing knowledge without the overhead. Ansible Automation
Platform makes it possible for users across an organization to share, vet,
and manage automation content by means of a simple, powerful, and agentless
language.

Security Fix(es):

• python3.12-brotli: Out-of-Bounds Write in Google Brotli Decoder (CVE-2026-111497)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE
page(s) listed in the References section.

For details about this release, refer to the release notes listed in the
References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, refer to Ansible Automation Platform documentation.

Affected Products

• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9 s390x
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2558973 - CVE-2026-111497 brotli: Out-of-Bounds Write in Google Brotli Decoder

CVEs

• CVE-2026-111497

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_ansible_automation_platform/2.6/whats_new-async_updates
• https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_ansible_automation_platform/2.6#Upgrade