CVE-2026-16493

highpriority · track · 0EPSS 0.003 · 19 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.27% (19th) EPSS

CVSS 7.8 · high

Is it mine?

8 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cert_bund

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.17.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.17.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · secalert@redhat.com USexploitability 1.8 · impact 5.9

v3.17.1highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical Impact: totalcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-88US

affected products (8)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Red Hat Enterprise Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:-
SUSE Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:suse:suse_linux:-
SUSE openSUSEall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:suse:opensuse:-
Open Source Ansible≤ core <2.20.7rc1cert_bundDE
Open Source Ansible≤ core <2.16.19rc1cert_bundDE
Open Source Ansible≤ core <2.21.1rc1cert_bundDE
Open Source Ansible≤ core <2.18.18rc1cert_bundDE
Open Source Ansible≤ core <2.19.11rc1cert_bundDE

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2026-2462Ansible: Schwachstelle ermöglicht CodeausführungDeutsch2026-07-21csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein lokaler Angreifer kann eine Schwachstelle in Ansible ausnutzen, um beliebigen Programmcode auszuführen.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd cert_bund NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2026-07-21modified 2026-09-04

references (9)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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