# CVE-2026-84713: Automation-controller: automation-controller: notification.recipients/subject/error lack prevent\_search, allowing zero-privilege cross-tenant recovery of notification recipient secrets via filter oracle

- Severity: CVSS 6.5 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/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

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

## Description

A flaw was found in the automation-controller notification subsystem. Although NotificationTemplate.notification_ configuration is protected from API filtering, its recipient value is copied in clear text into the unprotected Notification.recipients field on every send. Because the credential-types endpoint is listable by any authenticated user and the API filter backend traverses object relations without per-hop authorization, a user with no privileges can use a relational filter as a boolean count-oracle to recover, character by character and across organizations, the secret recipient values of other tenants' notifications — including PagerDuty service keys and Slack/Mattermost/RocketChat/Webhook bearer-token URLs. This flaw affects confidentiality.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on ansible-automation-platform-27/controller-rhel9, ansible-automation-platform-26/controller-rhel9, automation-controller, 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-2026:71177
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-84713
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2527197

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