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Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-84714"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-23T19:40:06.678Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T11:52:31.162Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z"
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-2026-84714"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-84714.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-84714"
title: "Automation-controller: automation-controller: incomplete sanitize_jinja() regex allows jinja template injection into ad-hoc module_args, machine-credential fields, and host names, reaching ansible-core templating in the execution environment"
summary: "A flaw was found in the automation-controller input-validation\n                  guard sanitize_jinja(). The function uses two regular\n                  expressions to reject user-supplied Jinja, but the patterns\n                  stop at the first interior '}' or '%' character, so a Jinja\n                  expression containing an inner brace (for example an empty\n                  dict) is accepted while remaining valid Jinja. Because\n                  sanitize_jinja() is the sole guard on several launch-time\n                  fields — ad-hoc command module_args, Machine-credential\n                  username / become_method / become_user, and inventory host\n                  names — a low-privileged user can inject Jinja that ansible-core\n                  evaluates in the execution environment. This enables execution\n                  of arbitrary commands in the execution environment (bypassing an\n                  administrator's AD_HOC_COMMANDS module allowlist) and disclosure\n                  of secrets belonging to credentials the attacker cannot read\n                  (by templating a co-attached credential's injected environment\n                  variables), across the credential access-control boundary."
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