# CVE-2026-71461: Information disclosure in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2

> Authenticated users can trigger verbose error messages in the host list feature, leaking internal database schema and raw error details.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.3 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 23 Sep 2026
- **Updated:** 16 Oct 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-98xv-m2v4-crqh

## What is CVE-2026-71461?

CVE-2026-71461 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2, published on 23 Sep 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-209 (Generation of Error Message Containing Sensitive Information)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2026-71461?


## How do I fix CVE-2026-71461?

No fix has been published for CVE-2026-71461 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2026-71461 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-71461 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2026-71461 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2026-71461 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2, published on 23 Sep 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2026-71461 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-71461/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-71461/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-71461
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-71461
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-71461

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-71461/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.