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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-84720"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-09-23T19:40:36.979Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-16T11:55:22.643Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:58:35.090Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-84720"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-84720.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-84720"
title: "Automation-controller: automation-controller: workflowjobnode.ancestor_artifacts lacks prevent_search, exposing no_log set_stats artifacts via orm-traversal count-oracle"
summary: "A flaw was found in the Ansible Automation Platform automation-controller. The\nWorkflowJobNode.ancestor_artifacts database column, which stores the raw merged set_stats\nartifacts propagated between workflow nodes, is not wrapped in prevent_search() and is therefore\naccepted for arbitrary field lookups by the REST filter backend, even though it is omitted from\nthe API serializer. Because the column is persisted before Ansible's no_log masking is applied,\na user with only read access to a workflow — or, via a regular-expression lookup that bypasses\nthe JSON cross-relation filter guard through the world-readable credential-types endpoint, any\nauthenticated user with no roles — can use the result count as a boolean/count oracle to recover,\ncharacter by character, secret values that a playbook author explicitly marked no_log, including\nacross organizations."
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