A flaw was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform's automation-controller. The Project SCM branch and SCM refspec fields are accepted without rejecting values that begin with a dash and are passed to the git module during project synchronization, where they reach a `git checkout`/`git fetch` command line as bare arguments with no end-of-options separator. An authenticated user permitted to create or edit a project can set the SCM branch to a git option such as `--pathspec-from-file=<path>`, causing git to read an arbitrary file on the synchronization host and reflect its contents back through the project-update output. Because project synchronization runs on the control-plane host on default OpenShift Operator deployments, an attacker can read the control-plane Kubernetes ServiceAccount token, the Controller SECRET_KEY, and the database credentials, leading to full compromise of the Automation Platform and its Kubernetes namespace. System administrator privileges are not required and the impact crosses tenants.
Fix evidence last checked: 2026-09-24 06:02 UTC