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.
References6
Metrics
- CVSS 3.1
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7.6
HIGH
Score source: CNA
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:H/A:N - EPSS — exploit probability
- 0% percentile: 24 · as of 9 November 2026
- CWE
- CWE-184
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