CVE-2026-84502

CRITICALPre-NVD 9.99.9
EchelonGraph scoreMEDIUM confidence

“—” beside the score: it is equal to the CVSS score beside it.

Score 9.9 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: CRITICAL) published 2026-09-23. A secondary CVSS source baseline 9.9; sources differ by 0.0.

Triggered by: GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
Sources: EPSS, GitHub Security Advisory, a secondary CVSS source
Trending — 4 sources updated this week

Also known asEUVD-2026-85560 (ENISA EUVD) · GHSA-vpmq-jxf9-c55v (GitHub Security Advisories)Source: ENISA EUVD

9.9EG
EchelonGraph verdictPlan a fixRemediate within your standard update timelines (the SSVC decision on this page).
  • High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
CISA-KEV: Not listedEPSS PROB: 0.6%CVSS: 9.9Exploit: None knownExposed services: Not assessed

A fix is available — apply it.

A flaw was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform's automation- controller. The Project scm_url field is not validated against values that begin with a dash and is stored and passed verbatim to the git SCM module. Because the module runs git ls-remote with the URL as a positional argument and without a "--" separator, a git project URL such as "--upload-pack=:x" is interpreted by git as the --upload-pack option and executed via a shell. A user with permission to create or modify a project in a single organization can thereby execute arbitrary commands on the control-plane task pod, with output reflected through the project update stdout endpoint, leading to cross-tenant compromise and in-cluster lateral movement

CVSS v3
9.9
EG Score
9.9CRITICALmedium confidence
EG Risk
45
EG Risk 45/100

EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score. It fuses impact severity (EG Severity, the CVSS base score, never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score) with real-world exploitation and automatability, under weights EchelonGraph set by hand, so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner.

How it’s computed (value × EchelonGraph’s weight)
Severity99% × 45%
Impact severity (EG Severity): CVSS 9.9 of 10. Never the KEV-floored or EPSS-lifted EG Score.
Exploitation0.6% × 40%
FIRST EPSS: the 30-day exploitation probability when EchelonGraph scored this CVE.
Automatability0% × 15%
CISA's SSVC Automatable value: no (Vulnrichment).
SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph): Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).
Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE.
Action: A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.
EPSS PROB
0.6%
EPSS %ILE
50th
KEV
Not listed

What the EG score is made of (scorer v4.0: the three questions the 0–10 score mixes, published apart · methodology)

The EG score (9.9): severity, escalated by confirmed exploitation. This CVE's 9.9 is its impact severity (EG Severity), not escalated.

EG Severity
9.9 CRITICALCVSS-B, impact only: no KEV listing, EPSS or EG-KEV tier raises it.GitHub Security Advisory CVSS
EG Likelihood
0.6% within 30 daysSource: FIRST EPSS (model v2026.06.15, score date 2026-11-01). FIRST's exploitation probability, not an EchelonGraph model.
Confirmed exploitation
None on record (CISA KEV, EG-KEV Tier 1)Reported apart from the likelihood: an observed fact, not a probability.
EG Priority
SSVC Track at medium mission impactTrack at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).CISA BOD 26-04: 14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.Each input and its source, and whom BOD 26-04 binds: the SSVC and BOD 26-04 blocks below.

SSVC (CISA's decision table, applied by EchelonGraph)Track at low or medium mission impact; Track* at high (mission-essential systems).

A fix is available. Apply it within your standard update timelines.

Exploitation none (CISA Vulnrichment) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). All three are CISA's SSVC values (Vulnrichment). EchelonGraph applied CISA's decision table to them; CISA publishes SSVC inputs and the table, not a decision for each CVE. Mission impact is CISA's Mission & Well-being decision point, and only you can judge it. CISA's table makes it high when Mission Prevalence is Essential — the vulnerable component "directly provides capabilities that constitute at least one MEF for at least one entity" (MEF: mission essential function) — or when Public Well-Being Impact is Irreversible: "multiple fatalities are likely", the cyber-physical system "is likely lost or destroyed", "extreme or serious externalities" are imposed on other parties, or social systems such as elections or the financial grid "are destabilized and potentially collapse". CISA's decision table

BOD 26-04 (CISA's remediation timeline, Table 1)14 days if the affected system is publicly exposed; Fix on system upgrade if it is not.

The score's inputs: In CISA KEV no (CISA's KEV catalog) · Automatable no (CISA Vulnrichment) · Technical impact total (CISA Vulnrichment). Whether your system is publicly exposed is yours to answer. BOD 26-04 binds US Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies; for anyone else it is CISA's published timeline, a reference rather than an obligation. The directive · how EchelonGraph applies it

Published

September 23, 2026

Last Modified

September 24, 2026

Advisory Details (7)

Auto-updated Oct 30, 2026
Patch available. Sources: redhat.
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

2527096 – (CVE-2026-84502) CVE-2026-84502 automation-controller: automation-controller-container: automation-controller: Project scm_url argument injection into `git ls-remote --upload-pack` yields RCE on the controller-task control-plane pod

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2527096
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)

CVE-2026-84502 - Red Hat Customer Portal

Affected: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 or OpenShift Container Platform 4, is affected by this vulnerability and a fix may be released to a

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-84502
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71179
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71177
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71115
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71114
Red HatMentions a patch (unverified)
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71113

Patch Availability(5)

Vendor / EcosystemFix (by version range) / PatchReleasedSource
redhatautomation-controller-0:4.6.33-1.el9ap2026-09-23redhat
redhatansible-automation-platform-26/controller-rhel9:17896737392026-09-23redhat
redhatansible-automation-platform-27/controller-rhel9:17895806842026-09-23redhat
redhatautomation-controller-0:4.5.36-1.el9ap2026-09-23redhat
redhatautomation-controller-0:4.7.17-1.el9ap2026-09-23redhat

Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.

Weakness Classification(1)

MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.

Additional Vendor Advisories

(1)

Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.

Data Freshness Timeline

(refreshed 30× in last 7d / 205× in last 30d)

Each row is a time one of our pipelines fetched, updated or re-scored this CVE. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. An arrow marks a change the record states ("CVSS v3 → 9.1"); EPSS and GHSA rows show the values recorded at that time, not what changed (EPSS values are rounded; hover one for the exact figures). Most recent first.

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  1. 2026-11-02 00:11 UTCEG score recompute
  2. 2026-11-02 00:11 UTCVendor advisory
  3. 2026-11-02 00:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vpmq-jxf9-c55v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  4. 2026-11-01 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 50th percentile
  5. 2026-11-01 02:28 UTCEG score recompute
  6. 2026-11-01 02:28 UTCVendor advisory
  7. 2026-11-01 02:28 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vpmq-jxf9-c55v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  8. 2026-10-31 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 50th percentile
  9. 2026-10-31 04:46 UTCEG score recompute
  10. 2026-10-31 04:46 UTCVendor advisory
  11. 2026-10-31 04:46 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vpmq-jxf9-c55v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  12. 2026-10-30 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 50th percentile
  13. 2026-10-30 07:04 UTCEG score recompute
  14. 2026-10-30 07:04 UTCVendor advisory
  15. 2026-10-30 07:04 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vpmq-jxf9-c55v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  16. 2026-10-29 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 50th percentile
  17. 2026-10-29 09:21 UTCEG score recompute
  18. 2026-10-29 09:21 UTCVendor advisory
  19. 2026-10-29 09:21 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vpmq-jxf9-c55v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  20. 2026-10-28 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 50th percentile
  21. 2026-10-28 11:38 UTCEG score recompute
  22. 2026-10-28 11:38 UTCVendor advisory
  23. 2026-10-28 11:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vpmq-jxf9-c55v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  24. 2026-10-27 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  25. 2026-10-27 13:38 UTCEG score recompute
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  1. 2026-10-27 13:38 UTCVendor advisory
  2. 2026-10-27 13:38 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vpmq-jxf9-c55v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  3. 2026-10-26 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  4. 2026-10-26 15:24 UTCVendor advisory
  5. 2026-10-26 15:24 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vpmq-jxf9-c55v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  6. 2026-10-25 16:59 UTCEG score recompute
  7. 2026-10-25 16:59 UTCVendor advisory
  8. 2026-10-25 16:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vpmq-jxf9-c55v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  9. 2026-10-25 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 49th percentile
  10. 2026-10-25 13:56 UTCEG score recompute
  11. 2026-10-24 19:17 UTCEG score recompute
  12. 2026-10-24 19:17 UTCVendor advisory
  13. 2026-10-24 19:17 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vpmq-jxf9-c55v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  14. 2026-10-24 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  15. 2026-10-23 21:35 UTCEG score recompute
  16. 2026-10-23 21:35 UTCVendor advisory
  17. 2026-10-23 21:35 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vpmq-jxf9-c55v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  18. 2026-10-23 17:27 UTCEG score recompute
  19. 2026-10-23 17:27 UTCVendor advisory
  20. 2026-10-23 17:27 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vpmq-jxf9-c55v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  21. 2026-10-23 16:32 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  22. 2026-10-22 19:45 UTCEG score recompute
  23. 2026-10-22 19:45 UTCVendor advisory
  24. 2026-10-22 19:45 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vpmq-jxf9-c55v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  25. 2026-10-22 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  26. 2026-10-21 22:02 UTCEG score recompute
  27. 2026-10-21 22:02 UTCVendor advisory
  28. 2026-10-21 22:02 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vpmq-jxf9-c55v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  29. 2026-10-21 16:34 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  30. 2026-10-21 00:00 UTCEG score recompute
  31. 2026-10-21 00:00 UTCVendor advisory
  32. 2026-10-21 00:00 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vpmq-jxf9-c55v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  33. 2026-10-20 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  34. 2026-10-20 02:11 UTCEG score recompute
  35. 2026-10-20 02:11 UTCVendor advisory
  36. 2026-10-20 02:11 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vpmq-jxf9-c55v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  37. 2026-10-19 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  38. 2026-10-19 01:26 UTCEG score recompute
  39. 2026-10-19 01:26 UTCVendor advisory
  40. 2026-10-19 01:25 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vpmq-jxf9-c55v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  41. 2026-10-18 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  42. 2026-10-18 03:43 UTCVendor advisory
  43. 2026-10-18 03:43 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vpmq-jxf9-c55v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  44. 2026-10-18 03:06 UTCEG score recompute
  45. 2026-10-17 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  46. 2026-10-17 05:59 UTCEG score recompute
  47. 2026-10-17 05:59 UTCVendor advisory
  48. 2026-10-17 05:59 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vpmq-jxf9-c55v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  49. 2026-10-16 16:44 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  50. 2026-10-16 07:06 UTCEG score recompute
  51. 2026-10-16 07:06 UTCVendor advisory
  52. 2026-10-16 07:06 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vpmq-jxf9-c55v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  53. 2026-10-15 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  54. 2026-10-15 05:54 UTCEG score recompute
  55. 2026-10-15 05:54 UTCVendor advisory
  56. 2026-10-15 05:53 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vpmq-jxf9-c55v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  57. 2026-10-14 16:33 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  58. 2026-10-14 01:31 UTCEG score recompute
  59. 2026-10-14 01:31 UTCVendor advisory
  60. 2026-10-14 01:31 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vpmq-jxf9-c55v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  61. 2026-10-13 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  62. 2026-10-12 21:42 UTCEG score recompute
  63. 2026-10-12 21:42 UTCVendor advisory
  64. 2026-10-12 21:42 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vpmq-jxf9-c55v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  65. 2026-10-12 16:35 UTCEPSS rescoreEPSS 0.6% · 48th percentile
  66. 2026-10-12 14:53 UTCEG score recompute
  67. 2026-10-12 04:36 UTCVendor advisory
  68. 2026-10-12 04:36 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vpmq-jxf9-c55v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  69. 2026-10-11 23:37 UTCVendor advisory
  70. 2026-10-11 23:37 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vpmq-jxf9-c55v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  71. 2026-10-11 19:18 UTCEG score recompute
  72. 2026-10-11 19:08 UTCVendor advisory
  73. 2026-10-11 19:08 UTCGHSA enrichmentGHSA-vpmq-jxf9-c55v · GitHub severity CRITICAL · GitHub CVSS 9.9
  74. 2026-10-11 16:34 UTCEG score recompute
  75. 2026-10-11 14:44 UTCVendor advisory

Frequently asked(5)

What is CVE-2026-84502?
CVE-2026-84502 is a critical-severity vulnerability; its CVE record was published on September 23, 2026. A flaw was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform's automation- controller. The Project scm_url field is not validated against values that begin with a dash and is stored and passed verbatim to the git SCM module. Because the module runs git ls-remote with the URL as a positional argument and…
When was CVE-2026-84502 made public?
CVE-2026-84502 was made public on September 23, 2026: that is the date its CVE record's CNA, Red Hat, Inc., gives for when the vulnerability was made public. The CVE record itself was published on September 23, 2026. EchelonGraph's copy of the record carries a last-modified date of September 24, 2026; the record at its source may have been updated since.
Is CVE-2026-84502 actively exploited?
CVE-2026-84502 is not currently on CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. FIRST EPSS estimates a 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days (50th percentile of EPSS-scored CVEs).
What is the CVSS score of CVE-2026-84502?
CVE-2026-84502 has a CVSS base score of 9.9 (a secondary CVSS source that NVD displays; NVD's own analysis pending).
How do I remediate CVE-2026-84502?
A fix for CVE-2026-84502 is available: update to the fixed version the vendor names in its advisory. The vendor advisories EchelonGraph has for CVE-2026-84502 are linked in the Vendor Advisories panel on this page.

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