PT-2026-61997 · Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2+4

CVE-2026-16493 · Published 2026-07-21 · Updated 2026-07-21

NVD

CVSS v3.1

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

A flaw was found in ansible-core. The extract collection from git() function in ansible-core's concrete artifact manager.py constructs git clone commands without a '--' (end-of-options) separator before user-supplied URLs when installing collections from git sources. An attacker who provides a crafted collection source URI containing git argument injection payloads can achieve arbitrary command execution when a user runs 'ansible-galaxy collection install' with the malicious source. This is an incomplete fix for CVE-2026-11332, which hardened the role install path but missed the equivalent collection install code path.

Fix

Argument Injection

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-88

Related Identifiers

CVE-2026-16493

Affected Products

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Red Hat Satellite 6

References · 3

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-16493 · Security Note
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-16493 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2503724 · Note