RHSA-2025:12772 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform provides an enterprise framework for building, deploying and managing IT automation at scale. IT Managers can provide top-down guidelines on how automation is applied to individual teams, while automation developers retain the freedom to write tasks that leverage existing knowledge without the overhead. Ansible Automation Platform makes it possible for users across an organization to share, vet, and manage automation content by means of a simple, powerful, and agentless language.

Security Fix(es):

• automation-gateway: CSRF origin checking is disabled (CVE-2025-5988)
• python3.11-django-ansible-base: Sensitive Authenticator Secrets Returned in Clear Text via API in AAP (CVE-2025-7738)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Updates and fixes included:

Automation Platform

• Fixed the fields content_type for role user assignments to indicate that null values are valid responses from the API (AAP-49494)
• Checking DB status done by the GRPC server and by Gateway status API is now done in separate thread to avoid creating extra DB connections (AAP-49383)
• PosixUIDGroupType can now be selected for LDAP Group Type (AAP-49347)
• Added case insensitivity for authentication map user attribute names and values and for group names. Feature flag FEATURE_CASE_INSENSITIVE_AUTH_MAPS must be set to true to enable case insensitive comparisons (AAP-49327)
• Fixed an issue where auto-complete was not disabled on all forms for sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, secret keys, etc (AAP-49079)
• Fixed an issue related to workflow job template limits overriding workflow job template node limits upon save (AAP-48946)
• Optimized the handling of web socket messages from the Workflow Visualizer (AAP-46800)
• Fixed the Min and Max Limit values displayed on the Edit Survey form (AAP-39933)
• automation-gateway has been updated to 2.5.20250730
• python3.11-django-ansible-base has been updated to 2.5.20250730

Automation controller

• Removed api version from hardcoded url in inventory plugin (AAP-48443)
• Updated the injectors for the AAP credential type to work across collections (AAP-47877)
• Fixed 404 error for workflow nodes (AAP-47362)
• automation-controller has been updated to 4.6.18

Automation hub

• automation-hub has been updated to 4.10.6
• python3.11-galaxy-ng has been updated to 4.10.6

Container-based Ansible Automation Platform

• Fixed permission issues when restoring Automation hub with NFS storage (AAP-50118)
• Added an exclusion parameter for backup, allowing users to specify snapshot paths to be excluded from the backup process (AAP-50114)
• Fixed the issue where execution instances removed from the inventory would still be visible on the Topology View (AAP-48615)
• Fixed a bug restoring Automation hub to a new cluster when using NFS for the hub data filesystem (AAP-48568)
• containerized installer setup has been updated to 2.5-17

RPM-based Ansible Automation Platform

• The installer now allow passing gunicorn timeout to EDA api service unit (AAP-49858)
• Installer will now only open event stream ports to the firewall on EDA event stream nodes (AAP-49792)
• Align envoy, nginx, web server, and jwt token timeouts to avoid issues where requests time out but work continues or tokens expire before they are used (AAP-49153)
• EDA node type is now properly checked during restore (AAP-49004)
• Fixed an issue where gRPC server port wasn't configured properly when non-default value was used (AAP-48543)
• ansible-automation-platform-installer and installer setup have been updated to 2.5-16

Solution

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Affected Products

• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9 s390x
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9 aarch64
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8 s390x
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8 aarch64
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.2 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.2 for RHEL 9 s390x
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.2 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.2 for RHEL 9 aarch64
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.2 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.2 for RHEL 8 s390x
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.2 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.2 for RHEL 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2371644 - CVE-2025-5988 aap-gateway: CSRF origin checking is disabled
• BZ - 2381589 - CVE-2025-7738 python3.11-django-ansible-base: Sensitive Authenticator Secrets Returned in Clear Text via API in AAP

CVEs

• CVE-2025-5988
• CVE-2025-7738

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate