CVE-2026-16493: Ansible-core: argument injection in ansible-galaxy collection install via git clone (incomplete fix for cve-2026-11332)
Red Hat · Red Hat Satellite 6.17 for RHEL 9
Vendor fix available · Affected: Red Hat Satellite 6.17 for RHEL 9 · Exploitation: unlikely (under 1%)
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DescriptionCVE.org
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.
Affected products9
From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.
- Red Hat · Red Hat Satellite 6.17 for RHEL 9Versions not stated
- Red Hat · Red Hat Satellite 6.18 for RHEL 9Versions not stated
- Red Hat · Red Hat Satellite 6.18 for RHEL 9Versions not stated
- Red Hat · Red Hat Satellite 6.18 for RHEL 9Versions not stated
- Red Hat · Red Hat Satellite 6.19 for RHEL 9Versions not stated
- Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2Versions not stated
- Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10Versions not stated
- Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Versions not stated
- Red Hat · Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9Versions not stated
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