Automation-controller: automation-controller: incomplete sanitize_jinja() regex allows jinja template injection into ad-hoc module_args, machine-credential fields, and host names, reaching ansible-core templating in the execution environment
21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 7.1epss 0.3%
exploitation probability
0.3%top 81% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
A flaw was found in the automation-controller input-validation
guard sanitize_jinja(). The function uses two regular
expressions to reject user-supplied Jinja, but the patterns
stop at the first interior '}' or '%' character, so a Jinja
expression containing an inner brace (for example an empty
dict) is accepted while remaining valid Jinja. Because
sanitize_jinja() is the sole guard on several launch-time
fields — ad-hoc command module_args, Machine-credential
username / become_method / become_user, and inventory host
names — a low-privileged user can inject Jinja that ansible-core
evaluates in the execution environment. This enables execution
of arbitrary commands in the execution environment (bypassing an
administrator's AD_HOC_COMMANDS module allowlist) and disclosure
of secrets belonging to credentials the attacker cannot read
(by templating a co-attached credential's injected environment
variables), across the credential access-control boundary.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N
Affected products
Red 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-2026:71177https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71179https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-84714https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2527198