Description
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
Published: 2026-09-23
Score: 9.9 Critical
EPSS: n/a
KEV: No
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History

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 21:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
First Time appeared Redhat ansible Automation Platform Developer
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.4::el8
cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.4::el9
cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.4::el8
cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.4::el9
Vendors & Products Redhat ansible Automation Platform Developer
References

Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:30:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:00:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description 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
Title 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
First Time appeared Redhat
Redhat ansible Automation Platform
Weaknesses CWE-88
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2
Vendors & Products Redhat
Redhat ansible Automation Platform
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 9.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H'}


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Redhat Ansible Automation Platform Ansible Automation Platform Developer
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-23T21:46:13.037Z

Reserved: 2026-09-01T21:00:38.911Z

Link: CVE-2026-84502

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Updated: 2026-09-23T19:29:46.591Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-09-23T19:19:40.377

Modified: 2026-09-23T20:17:17.293

Link: CVE-2026-84502

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No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

Updated: 2026-09-23T20:30:09Z

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