A flaw was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform's automation-controller. The
Project SCM branch and SCM refspec fields are accepted without rejecting values that begin
with a dash and are passed to the git module during project synchronization, where they
reach a `git checkout`/`git fetch` command line as bare arguments with no end-of-options
separator. An authenticated user permitted to create or edit a project can set the SCM
branch to a git option such as `--pathspec-from-file=<path>`, causing git to read an
arbitrary file on the synchronization host and reflect its contents back through the
project-update output. Because project synchronization runs on the control-plane host on
default OpenShift Operator deployments, an attacker can read the control-plane Kubernetes
ServiceAccount token, the Controller SECRET_KEY, and the database credentials, leading to
full compromise of the Automation Platform and its Kubernetes namespace. System
administrator privileges are not required and the impact crosses tenants.
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Description A flaw was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform's automation-controller. The Project SCM branch and SCM refspec fields are accepted without rejecting values that begin with a dash and are passed to the git module during project synchronization, where they reach a `git checkout`/`git fetch` command line as bare arguments with no end-of-options separator. An authenticated user permitted to create or edit a project can set the SCM branch to a git option such as `--pathspec-from-file=<path>`, causing git to read an arbitrary file on the synchronization host and reflect its contents back through the project-update output. Because project synchronization runs on the control-plane host on default OpenShift Operator deployments, an attacker can read the control-plane Kubernetes ServiceAccount token, the Controller SECRET_KEY, and the database credentials, leading to full compromise of the Automation Platform and its Kubernetes namespace. System administrator privileges are not required and the impact crosses tenants.
Title automation-controller: automation-controller: Project scm_branch/scm_refspec argument injection into git during project sync allows arbitrary file read on the sync host (control-plane ServiceAccount token, SECRET_KEY, and DB credentials on control-plane deployments) leading to full AAP and Kubernetes-namespace compromise
First Time appeared Redhat
Redhat ansible Automation Platform
Weaknesses CWE-88
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.4::el8
cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.4::el9
cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.6::el9
Vendors & Products Redhat
Redhat ansible Automation Platform
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cvssV3_1

{'score': 9.9, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H'}

threat_severity

Critical


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Severity : Critical

Publid Date: 2026-09-23T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2026-84711 - Bugzilla

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