CVE record · CVE-2026-89091

Ansible-core: ansible-core: ansible-galaxy collection install symlink path escape allows arbitrary file write / code execution

CVSS 8.8 HighEPSS 0.0048 · 41st percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 8 Oct 2026, 21:49 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
Red Hat	Migration Toolkit for Applications 8 Package name: mta/mta-rhel9-operator https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Migration Toolkit for Virtualization Package name: migration-toolkit-virtualization/mtv-rhel9-operator https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	OpenShift Service Mesh 3 Package name: openshift-service-mesh/kiali-rhel9-operator https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 Package name: rhacm2/volsync-operator-bundle https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2 Package name: rhacm2/volsync-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-24/de-minimal-rhel8 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-24/de-minimal-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-24/ee-minimal-rhel8 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-24/ee-minimal-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-24/hub-rhel8 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-24/lightspeed-rhel8 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-25/ansible-dev-tools-rhel8 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-25/de-minimal-rhel8 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-25/de-minimal-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-25/eda-controller-rhel8 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-25/ee-minimal-rhel8 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-25/ee-minimal-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-25/hub-rhel8 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-25/lightspeed-rhel8 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-26/ansible-dev-tools-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-26/controller-rhel9-operator https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-26/de-minimal-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-26/de-supported-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-26/eda-controller-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-26/eda-controller-rhel9-operator https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-26/ee-minimal-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-26/ee-supported-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-26/gateway-rhel9-operator https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-26/hub-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-26/hub-rhel9-operator https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-26/lightspeed-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-26/lightspeed-rhel9-operator https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-26/platform-resource-rhel9-operator https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-26/platform-resource-runner-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-27/aap-cloud-billing-operator-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-27/ansible-devspaces-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-27/ansible-dev-tools-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-27/controller-rhel9-operator https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-27/de-minimal-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-27/de-supported-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected

And 34 more products. The full list is on the CVE record.

Identifiers: CVE-2026-89091
CNA: redhat
Weakness (CWE): CWE-59
Tags: Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Applications 8
Red Hat Migration Toolkit for Virtualization
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh 3
Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Ansible Core 2
Red Hat Certification Program for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Red Hat Discovery 2
Path traversal
Published: 8 Oct 2026
Updated: 4 Nov 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
8.8	High	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CNA (redhat)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0048, the 41st percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

8 Oct 2026, 21:49 UTC Confirmed by the CVE List
8 Oct 2026, 22:17 UTC Confirmed by NVD

Sources

References from the CNA

access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-89091 vdb-entryredhat
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2531646 issue-trackingredhat

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.