What is CVE-2026-80179?

CVE-2026-80179 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2026-08-28.

How severe is CVE-2026-80179?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2

CVE-2026-80179

A flaw was found in jwcrypto. A remote attacker can send a specially crafted JSON Web Encryption (JWE) token containing numerous period delimiters. This malformed token can force the JWE.deserialize() function to allocate excessive memory, leading to a MemoryError. This issue results in a denial of service (DoS) for services that process untrusted JWE values.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.9 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, vdb-entry)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, issue-tracking)
secalert@redhat.com

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-80179?: CVE-2026-80179 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 5.9/10. Published 2026-08-28.
How severe is CVE-2026-80179?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.9 out of 10.