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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact None

User Interaction None

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No CVSS v2

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Wed, 23 Sep 2026 19:45:00 +0000

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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
Weaknesses CWE-184
CPEs cpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2
Vendors & Products Redhat
Redhat ansible Automation Platform
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.6, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N'}

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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2026-09-23T19:39:57.375Z

Reserved: 2026-09-02T00:01:03.739Z

Link: CVE-2026-84706

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Status : Received

Published: 2026-09-23T20:17:17.677

Modified: 2026-09-23T20:17:17.677

Link: CVE-2026-84706

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Updated: 2026-09-23T20:30:09Z

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