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CVE-2026-84714

Automation-controller: automation-controller: incomplete sanitize_jinja() regex allows jinja template injection into ad-hoc module_args, machine-credential fields, and host names, reaching ansible-core templating in the execution environment PUBLISHED

Description (CNA)

A flaw was found in the automation-controller input-validation guard sanitize_jinja(). The function uses two regular expressions to reject user-supplied Jinja, but the patterns stop at the first interior '}' or '%' character, so a Jinja expression containing an inner brace (for example an empty dict) is accepted while remaining valid Jinja. Because sanitize_jinja() is the sole guard on several launch-time fields — ad-hoc command module_args, Machine-credential username / become_method / become_user, and inventory host names — a low-privileged user can inject Jinja that ansible-core evaluates in the execution environment. This enables execution of arbitrary commands in the execution environment (bypassing an administrator's AD_HOC_COMMANDS module allowlist) and disclosure of secrets belonging to credentials the attacker cannot read (by templating a co-attached credential's injected environment variables), across the credential access-control boundary.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / productVersions
Red Hat / Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8unaffected 0:4.6.33-1.el8ap before *
Red Hat / Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9unaffected 0:4.6.33-1.el9ap before *
Red Hat / Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9unaffected 0:4.7.17-1.el9ap before *
Red Hat / Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6unaffected 1789673739 before *
Red Hat / Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7unaffected 1789580684 before *

CWE

CWE-184

References

ADP enrichment

CISA-ADP

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