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High ALAS2023-2026-2036 1 CVE

Important: ansible-core security update (Amazon Linux 2023)

Published Aug 3, 2026 · Updated Aug 4, 2026

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2023 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-16493: A flaw was found in ansible-core. The _extract_collection_from_git() function in ansible-core's concrete_artifact_manager.py constructs git clone commands without a '--' (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 'ansible-galaxy collection install' 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.

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2023 ansible-core 0:2.15.3-1.amzn2023.0.13
Amazon Linux · 2023 ansible-test 0:2.15.3-1.amzn2023.0.13

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-16493.html