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THREAT OPSThreat News › [NVD] CVE-2026-16493 (HIGH 7.8) — 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

[NVD] CVE-2026-16493 (HIGH 7.8) — 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

lownvdPublished 2026-07-21

CVE-2026-16493 CVSS: 7.8 HIGH Published: 2026-07-21T18:16:57.030

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 containi

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Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-16493