Medium · 4.3 CVE-2026-71461 EUVD-2026-85535GHSA-98xv-m2v4-crqh

Automation-controller: automation-controller-container: automation-controller: verbose internal exception disclosure via hostlist bare-exception handler

Published Sep 23, 2026 · Updated Oct 16, 2026 · Assigned by redhat

Vendor: Red Hat Product: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Product: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7

Description

HostList.list() catches bare Exception and returns str(e)
verbatim. Via host_filter, any authenticated user triggers
Django FieldError (leaking complete Host model relation
graph including internal reverse accessors) or PostgreSQL
DataError (leaking raw database error strings). Two
primitives: credential__search=x dumps ORM schema,
name__regex=[bad reflects PostgreSQL errors.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected	Fixed
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7	—	—
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2	—	—

Advisories 1

WID-SEC-2026-3555 Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (automation-controller): Mehrere Schwachstellen BSI CERT-Bund (WID) · Nov 12, 2026

References

RHSA-2026:71177 vendor-advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-71461 vdb-entry
RHBZ#2512370 issue-tracking