Automation-controller: automation-controller: workflowjobnode.ancestor_artifacts lacks prevent_search, exposing no_log set_stats artifacts via orm-traversal count-oracle
13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 6.5epss 0.3%
exploitation probability
0.3%top 83% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
A flaw was found in the Ansible Automation Platform automation-controller. The
WorkflowJobNode.ancestor_artifacts database column, which stores the raw merged set_stats
artifacts propagated between workflow nodes, is not wrapped in prevent_search() and is therefore
accepted for arbitrary field lookups by the REST filter backend, even though it is omitted from
the API serializer. Because the column is persisted before Ansible's no_log masking is applied,
a user with only read access to a workflow — or, via a regular-expression lookup that bypasses
the JSON cross-relation filter guard through the world-readable credential-types endpoint, any
authenticated user with no roles — can use the result count as a boolean/count oracle to recover,
character by character, secret values that a playbook author explicitly marked no_log, including
across organizations.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Affected products
Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9Red Hat · Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7References
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71113https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71114https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71177https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71179https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-84720https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2527214