- Critical 9.9
CVE-2026-84502
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 po…
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The facts
- Published
- 23 September 2026
- Last changed
- 24 September 2026
- NVD status
- Awaiting Analysis
- Severity
- Critical, CVSS 9.9 out of 10 (version 3.1)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H - Weakness
- Known exploited
- Not in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue in this build.
- EPSS
- 0.6% chance of exploitation activity in the next 30 days (percentile 48).
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