Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform system-job days argument injection

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A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and classified as very critical. The impacted element is an unknown function of the component system-job. Such manipulation of the argument days leads to argument injection. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2026-84724. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability, which was classified as very critical, has been found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (the affected version is unknown). Affected by this issue is an unknown code of the component system-job. The manipulation of the argument days with an unknown input leads to a argument injection vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-88. The product constructs a string for a command to be executed by a separate component in another control sphere, but it does not properly delimit the intended arguments, options, or switches within that command string. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

An argument-injection flaw was found in the Ansible Automation Platform automation-controller system-job subsystem. The system-job template launch endpoint stores a user-supplied "days" variable without running the integer validation defined elsewhere for that field, and the dispatcher flattens the management-command argument list into a single string with spaces before the job runner re-splits it, so spaces in the value become additional command-line arguments. Because system jobs are executed in-process on the control node without the container isolation applied to all other job types, an authenticated user with superuser privileges can inject arbitrary arguments — including Python's path option — into the control-plane awx-manage process, controlling its argument vector and the first entry of its module search path. Full remote code execution requires an additional import gadget that is not present in the current management commands, so the demonstrated impact is argument injection with control of the process search path rather than confirmed code execution.

The advisory is shared for download at access.redhat.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-84724 since 09/02/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. The exploitation needs additional levels of successful authentication. There are known technical details, but no exploit is available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $5k-$25k (estimation calculated on 09/23/2026). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

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• Automation Software

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• Red Hat

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• Ansible Automation Platform

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• open-source

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• Vendor: https://www.redhat.com/

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