Automation-controller: automation-controller-container: automation-controller: project scm_url argument injection into `git ls-remote --upload-pack` yields rce on the controller-task control-plane pod
28Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 9.9epss 0.6%
exploitation probability
0.6%top 53% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
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
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected products
Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 8Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 for RHEL 9Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7References
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71113https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71114https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71115https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71177https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71179https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-84502https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2527096