RHSA-2026:99008 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Critical. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which
gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from
the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform provides an enterprise framework for
building, deploying and managing IT automation at scale. IT Managers can
provide top-down guidelines on how automation is applied to individual
teams, while automation developers retain the freedom to write tasks that
leverage existing knowledge without the overhead. Ansible Automation
Platform makes it possible for users across an organization to share, vet,
and manage automation content by means of a simple, powerful, and agentless
language.

Security Fix(es):

• automation-controller: GitPython 3.1.30 before 3.2.0 Command Injection

via Remote.pull() Refspec (CVE-2026-110858)

• automation-controller: GitPython: Denial of Service via regular

expression backtracking in date parsing (CVE-2026-110856)

• automation-controller: GitPython: Arbitrary file read via argument

injection in branch checkout (CVE-2026-110859)

• automation-controller: GitPython: Arbitrary code execution via unsafe URL

protocol handling (CVE-2026-110857)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE
page(s) listed in the References section.

For details about this release, refer to the release notes listed in the
References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, refer to Ansible Automation Platform documentation.

Affected Products

• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9 s390x
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9 aarch64
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.3 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.3 for RHEL 9 s390x
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.3 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.3 for RHEL 9 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2552959 - CVE-2026-110858 GitPython: GitPython 3.1.30 before 3.2.0 Command Injection via Remote.pull() Refspec
• BZ - 2552966 - CVE-2026-110857 GitPython: GitPython: Arbitrary code execution via unsafe URL protocol handling
• BZ - 2552977 - CVE-2026-110856 GitPython: GitPython: Denial of Service via regular expression backtracking in date parsing
• BZ - 2552989 - CVE-2026-110859 GitPython: GitPython: Arbitrary file read via argument injection in branch checkout

CVEs

• CVE-2026-110856
• CVE-2026-110857
• CVE-2026-110858
• CVE-2026-110859

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#critical
• https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_ansible_automation_platform/2.6/whats_new-async_updates
• https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_ansible_automation_platform/2.6#Upgrade