What is CVE-2026-16493?

CVE-2026-16493 is a high-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2, classified under Argument Injection. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2026-07-21.

How severe is CVE-2026-16493?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2

CVE-2026-16493

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…

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H.

Affected products

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Red Hat Satellite 6

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-88 — Argument Injection

References

secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, vdb-entry)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_REDHAT, issue-tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-16493?: CVE-2026-16493 is a high-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2, classified under Argument Injection. CVSS score: 7.8/10. Published 2026-07-21.
How severe is CVE-2026-16493?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.8 out of 10.