# cveboard — Historical CVE brief

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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-71464"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-23T18:29:02.234Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T12:01:19.773Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:25.636Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-71464"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-71464.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-71464"
title: "Automation-controller: automation-controller-container: automation-controller: schedule and workflowjobtemplatenode scm_branch prompt bypasses leading-dash git-argument guard"
summary: "LaunchConfigurationBaseSerializer.scm_branch has no\n              validate_scm_branch() leading-dash check, unlike\n              Project/JobTemplate/JobLaunch serializers. Schedule and\n              WFJT Node accept --upload-pack=/bin/id as scm_branch.\n              Currently blocked at runtime by jobs.py:1502 ValueError\n              check (defense-in-depth), but the API validation gap\n              means sole reliance on a task-layer guard. Refactoring\n              that guard away would promote this to RCE."
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