CVE-2026-84502

Summary

A flaw was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform's automation- controller. The Project scm_url field is not validated against values that begin with a dash and is stored and passed verbatim to the git SCM module. Because the module runs git ls-remote with the URL as a positional argument and without a "–" separator, a git project URL such as "–upload-pack=<command>:x" is interpreted by git as the –upload-pack option and executed via a shell. A user with permission to create or modify a project in a single organization can thereby execute arbitrary commands on the control-plane task pod, with output reflected through the project update stdout endpoint, leading to cross-tenant compromise and in-cluster lateral movement

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
Red HatRed Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 80:4.5.36-1.el8ap < *unaffected
Red HatRed Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 90:4.5.36-1.el9ap < *unaffected
Red HatRed Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 90:4.7.17-1.el9ap < *unaffected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-88: Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection')

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: total

References