Command Injection Vulnerability in Galaxy_ng by Red Hat
CVE-2026-12398

7.5HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor

Red Hat
Status
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2
Vendor
CVE Published:
16 June 2026

What is CVE-2026-12398?

A command injection vulnerability exists in galaxy_ng, specifically within the do_git_checkout() function of the legacy role import API (v1). This flaw allows an authenticated user with access to a git repository to craft branch or tag names containing shell metacharacters. When these unsanitized names are used, they can be interpolated into shell commands executed through subprocess.run() with shell=True. This can potentially lead to remote code execution on the pulp worker, particularly if the GALAXY_ENABLE_LEGACY_ROLES setting has been enabled, which is not the default configuration.

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-12398
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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2489180
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CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.5
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
High
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Credit

This issue was discovered by Chris Meyers (Red Hat).
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