CVE-2026-84714 Automation-controller: automation-controller: incomplete sanitize_jinja() regex allows jinja template injection into ad-hoc module_args, machine-credential fields, and host names, reaching ansible-core templating in the execution environment

Description

A flaw was found in the automation-controller input-validation guard sanitize_jinja(). The function uses two regular expressions to reject user-supplied Jinja, but the patterns stop at the first interior '}' or '%' character, so a Jinja expression containing an inner brace (for example an empty dict) is accepted while remaining valid Jinja. Because sanitize_jinja() is the sole guard on several launch-time fields — ad-hoc command module_args, Machine-credential username / become_method / become_user, and inventory host names — a low-privileged user can inject Jinja that ansible-core evaluates in the execution environment. This enables execution of arbitrary commands in the execution environment (bypassing an administrator's AD_HOC_COMMANDS module allowlist) and disclosure of secrets belonging to credentials the attacker cannot read (by templating a co-attached credential's injected environment variables), across the credential access-control boundary.

Exploitable à distance par le réseau, avec un compte ordinaire et sans action d’un utilisateur ; un attaquant peut compromettre gravement la confidentialité, l’intégrité ou la disponibilité.

Vecteur d’attaque

Réseau

Complexité

Faible

Privilèges requis

Faibles

Interaction

Aucune

Portée

Inchangée

Confidentialité

Élevé

Intégrité

Faible

Disponibilité

Aucun

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