A flaw was found in Ansible Automation Platform's automation-controller. The custom
Credential Type environment-variable injector validates variable names against a
deny-list (an ANSIBLE_* prefix check plus a fixed ENV_BLOCKLIST) that omits
process-hijacking loader variables such as BASH_ENV, ENV, LD_PRELOAD, LD_LIBRARY_PATH,
PYTHONSTARTUP and GIT_SSH_COMMAND. Combined with the credential file injector, a
privileged user can write an attacker-controlled script into the execution environment
and point BASH_ENV at it, obtaining arbitrary code execution inside the
execution-environment container for any job that attaches a credential of that type.
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Sat, 26 Sep 2026 23:30:00 +0000
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Thu, 24 Sep 2026 06:15:00 +0000
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| CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.7::el9 | |
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| CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.5::el8 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.5::el9 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.5::el8 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.5::el9 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_inside:2.5::el8 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_inside:2.5::el9 |
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Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:00:00 +0000
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Redhat ansible Automation Platform Developer
Redhat ansible Automation Platform Inside |
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| CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.6::el10 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.6::el9 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.6::el10 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_developer:2.6::el9 cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform_inside:2.6::el9 |
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Redhat ansible Automation Platform Inside |
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| Description | A flaw was found in Ansible Automation Platform's automation-controller. The custom Credential Type environment-variable injector validates variable names against a deny-list (an ANSIBLE_* prefix check plus a fixed ENV_BLOCKLIST) that omits process-hijacking loader variables such as BASH_ENV, ENV, LD_PRELOAD, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, PYTHONSTARTUP and GIT_SSH_COMMAND. Combined with the credential file injector, a privileged user can write an attacker-controlled script into the execution environment and point BASH_ENV at it, obtaining arbitrary code execution inside the execution-environment container for any job that attaches a credential of that type. | |
| Title | Automation-controller: automation-controller-container: automation-controller: credential type env-injector deny-list omits process-hijacking variables (bash_env/ld_preload) allowing code execution in the execution environment | |
| First Time appeared |
Redhat
Redhat ansible Automation Platform |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-184 | |
| CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2 | |
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Redhat
Redhat ansible Automation Platform |
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cvssV3_1
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2026-09-23T19:39:57.375Z
Updated: 2026-10-16T11:52:23.774Z
Reserved: 2026-09-02T00:01:03.739Z
Link: CVE-2026-84706
Updated: 2026-09-26T22:48:57.472Z
Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-09-23T20:17:17.677
Modified: 2026-09-26T23:16:37.817
Link: CVE-2026-84706