CVE-2026-84502 – 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

​CVE ID :CVE-2026-84502

Published : Sept. 23, 2026, 6:47 p.m. | 24 minutes ago

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=: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

Severity: 9.9 | CRITICAL

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