MEDIUM4.7
PYSEC-2026-3550
awxkit has a path traversal vulnerability
Details
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.
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Affected packages
PyPI/awxkit
Introduced in:
0No fixed version published yet for awxkit (pip). Pin to a known-safe version or switch to an alternative.
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-52902[ADVISORY]
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-52902[WEB]
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2486729[WEB]
- https://github.com/ansible/awx[PACKAGE]
- https://pypi.org/project/awxkit[PACKAGE]
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-g29c-rgq6-gxgj[ADVISORY]