CVE-2026-52902: awxkit has a path traversal vulnerability
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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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