# CVE-2026-71459: Automation-controller: automation-controller-container: automation-controller: jobjobeventschildrensummary rbac bypass exposes cross-tenant job event tree structure

- Severity: CVSS 5.0 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-09-23 · Updated: 2026-10-16

## Affected

- automation-controller: version range not reported
- automation-controller: version range not reported
- automation-controller: version range not reported
- ansible-automation-platform-26/controller-rhel9: version range not reported
- ansible-automation-platform-27/controller-rhel9: version range not reported

## Description

JobJobEventsChildrenSummary view has no model/parent_model. ModelAccessPermission.check_get_permissions() falls through (returns True) for any authenticated user. The view uses raw get_object_or_404(Job, pk) without DRF object-level permission check. Zero-privilege user reads event tree structure, event_processing_finished status, and enumerates Job IDs platform-wide via 200/404 oracle. Sibling endpoint /jobs/{id}/job_events/ correctly returns 403.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on automation-controller, ansible-automation-platform-26/controller-rhel9, ansible-automation-platform-27/controller-rhel9, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71113
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71114
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71177
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71179
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-71459
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2512368

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