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🛡️ CVE-2026-16493

🟠 CVSS 7.8 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-88 NVD
7.8
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

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.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is unchanged, so the impact stays within the vulnerable component. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Local — a local account, shell or session on the host is needed.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: Required — someone has to click, open or visit something.
  • Scope: Unchanged — the damage stays inside the vulnerable component.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2026-16493 is classified as CWE-88: Argument Injection. Input is passed into a command line without separating data from options, letting an attacker introduce extra arguments.

Affected software

CVE-2026-16493 is recorded against 1 package.

  • unknown

Timeline and source

Published on 21 July 2026 and last revised on 22 July 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.

References

access.redhat.com
bugzilla.redhat.com

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unknown has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-88: Argument Injection) in other software:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 7.8
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-88
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2026-07-21
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-07-22
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
unknown — —

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