Advisory severityMedium4.3Red Hat Linux

Medium [CVE-2026-71461] Verbose internal exception disclosure via HostList bare-Exception handler

This medium-severity Red Hat Linux advisory covers CVE-2026-71461 affecting Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7.

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CVE-2026-71461 Source published Sep 23, 2026Source updated Sep 6, 2026

VulniPulse record published Sep 23, 2026Record updated Sep 27, 2026

CVE-2026-71461

Affected products & platforms

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Summary

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. Red Hat severity: Moderate — CVSS 4.3 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N).

Weakness: CWE-209. Affected Red Hat products: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7; Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.

Red Hat fixing advisory: RHSA-2026:71177.

Affected versions

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Fixed versions

ansible-automation-platform-27/controller-rhel9:1789580684
RHSA-2026:71177

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Mitigation

Upgrade to a fixed release: ansible-automation-platform-27/controller-rhel9:1789580684, RHSA-2026:71177. That is the remediation for this advisory.

The vendor advisory may list additional interim mitigations or workarounds not captured here — review it before change work.

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