CVE-2026-84502 Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform - Command Injection

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform automation-controller contains a command injection caused by improper validation of the Project scm_url field, letting users with project modification permissions execute arbitrary commands on the control-plane task pod, exploit requires user with project create or modify permissions.

CVSS base score 9.9 /10
Critical
CISA KEV
Not listed
Public exploit
None known
Authentication
Required
EPSS
0.62% chance of exploitation in 30 days
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Details

Type
Command Injection
Impact
Remote Code Execution
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Published
23 September 2026
Updated
15 October 2026
Weakness
CWE-88

Vendor fix

Update to the latest version with the fix applied.

Patching closes this CVE. It does not tell you which of your systems run the affected version, or what else is exposed alongside them.

References

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