{"id":82355,"date":"2026-07-21T20:56:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T17:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-16493-ansible-core-argument-injection-in-ansible-galaxy-collection-install-via-git-clone-incomplete-fix-for-cve-2026-11332\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T20:56:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T17:26:14","slug":"cve-2026-16493-ansible-core-argument-injection-in-ansible-galaxy-collection-install-via-git-clone-incomplete-fix-for-cve-2026-11332","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/cve-2026-16493-ansible-core-argument-injection-in-ansible-galaxy-collection-install-via-git-clone-incomplete-fix-for-cve-2026-11332\/","title":{"rendered":"CVE-2026-16493 &#8211; Ansible-core: argument injection in ansible-galaxy collection install via git clone (incomplete fix for cve-2026-11332)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-16493<\/p>\n<p>  Published : July 21, 2026, 5:26 p.m. | 18\u00a0minutes ago<\/p>\n<p>  Description :A flaw was found in ansible-core. The _extract_collection_from_git() function in ansible-core&#8217;s concrete_artifact_manager.py constructs git clone commands without a &#8216;&#8211;&#8216; (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 &#8216;ansible-galaxy collection install&#8217; 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.<\/p>\n<p>  Severity: 7.8 | HIGH<\/p>\n<p>  Visit the link for more details, such as CVSS details, affected products, timeline, and more&#8230;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVE ID :CVE-2026-16493 Published : July 21, 2026, 5:26 p.m. | 18\u00a0minutes ago Description :A flaw was found in ansible-core. The _extract_collection_from_git() function in ansible-core&#8217;s concrete_artifact_manager.py constructs git clone commands without a &#8216;&#8211;&#8216; (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 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vulnerability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afaghhosting.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}