RHSA-2025:19201 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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-platform-ui: tar-fs symlink validation bypass (CVE-2025-59343)
• python3.11-django: Potential partial directory-traversal via archive.extract() (CVE-2025-59682)
• automation-eda-controller: Sensitive Internal Headers Disclosure in AAP EDA Event Streams (CVE-2025-9908)
• automation-eda-controller: Event Stream Test Mode Exposes Sensitive Headers in AAP EDA (CVE-2025-9907)

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

• Fixes issue that prevents SAML and AzureAD authentication when local user accounts share the same email address (AAP-56518)
• Updated error handling in the Authenticator form to match other forms in the Platform UI (AAP-56356)
• Update autocomplete settings (AAP-55783)
• Added a step in the subscription wizard that allows the user to configure automation analytics (AAP-55094)
• Subscription credentials can no longer be viewed/edited from the system settings page (AAP-55014)
• Fixed the permission list when creating a custom role and selecting the Automation Decisions project or credential types (AAP-54756)
• Fixed an issue where the settings did not display "Red Hat" consistently in the API and UI (AAP-54276)
• Fixed an issue where the Load More in authentication mapping role dropdown did not work (AAP-54049)
• Fixed an issue where the decision environment dropdown displayed an empty dropdown when there are no decision environments available (AAP-53844)
• Component label for Platform Auditor role was fixed to display all components (AAP-53551)
• Topology layout and full screen mode were fixed (AAP-51106)
• Empty strings are no longer displayed in the extra variables field on the Jobs > Details page (AAP-49448)
• Added two new toggle options on the subscription wizard to allow for fetching subscriptions using basic authentication (AAP-47865)
• Fixed default execution environment selection in the automation settings page (AAP-39321)
• automation-gateway has been updated to 2.6.20251022
• automation-gateway-proxy has been updated to 2.6.6-4
• automation-platform-ui has been updated to 2.6.2
• python3.11-django-ansible-base has been updated to 2.6.20251023

Automation controller

• The metrics endpoint no longer returns duplicate metrics(AAP-56148)
• Fixed Platform Auditor to view controller settings (AAP-55607)
• Added support for Red Hat username and password for the subscription management API (AAP-54975)
• Fixed system_administrator role creation race condition (AAP-54963)
• Improved stability on long-running jobs, clusters under heavy load and network flakiness in receptor (AAP-53742)
• Fixed an issue where the ansible.platform collection did not work with the default Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform credential type (AAP-41000)
• automation-controller has been updated to 4.7.4
• receptor has been updated to 1.6.0

Automation hub

• Fixed an issue where _ui/v2/ user detail displayed the data incorrectly (AAP-54260)
• automation-hub has been updated to 4.11.2
• python3.11-galaxy-importer has been updated to 0.4.34
• python3.11-galaxy-ng has been updated to 4.11.2

Event-Driven Ansible

• automation-eda-controller has been updated to 1.2.1

Container-based Ansible Automation Platform

• Fixed issue with the lightspeed containers configuration when running installation for the second time over the existing AAP (AAP-56263)
• Set REDHAT_CANDLEPIN_VERIFY to correct CA pem so that controller can make requests to subscription.rhsm.redhat.com (AAP-55180)
• Implemented ansible-core version validation (AAP-54932)
• containerized installer setup has been updated to 2.6-2

RPM-based Ansible Automation Platform

• Fixed an issue where setting automationgateway_disable_https=false resulted in install failure (AAP-55466)
• Set REDHAT_CANDLEPIN_VERIFY to correct CA pem so that controller can make requests to subscription.rhsm.redhat.com (AAP-55183)
• Fixed an issue where RESOURCE_KEY SECRET_KEY was not updated when restoring from a different environment (AAP-54942)
• Fixed an issue where EDA DE credentials failed to populate on initial install (AAP-54519)
• Fixed an issue where automation gateway's envoy.log did not receive logs after it was rotated (AAP-51779)
• ansible-automation-platform-installer and installer setup have been updated to 2.6-2

Additional changes

• Updated ansible-builder and ansible-navigator to use EE images from ansible-automation-platform-26 namespace by default (AAP-54934)
• aap-metrics-utility has been updated to 0.6.1
• ansible-builder has been updated to 3.1.0-2
• ansible-navigator has been updated to 25.8.0-2
• python3.11-daemon has been updated to 3.1.2
• python3.11-django has been updated to 4.2.25

Solution

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

Affected Products

• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9 s390x
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9 aarch64
• Red Hat Ansible Inside 1.4 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Inside 1.4 for RHEL 9 s390x
• Red Hat Ansible Inside 1.4 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Ansible Inside 1.4 for RHEL 9 aarch64
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.3 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.3 for RHEL 9 s390x
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.3 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.3 for RHEL 9 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2392834 - CVE-2025-9907 event-driven-ansible: Event Stream Test Mode Exposes Sensitive Headers in AAP EDA
• BZ - 2392835 - CVE-2025-9908 event-driven-ansible: Sensitive Internal Headers Disclosure in AAP EDA Event Streams
• BZ - 2397901 - CVE-2025-59343 tar-fs: tar-fs symlink validation bypass
• BZ - 2400450 - CVE-2025-59682 django: Potential partial directory-traversal via archive.extract()
• AAP-49448 - SRE - CommonSpirit Health - Survey extra_vars bug

CVEs

• CVE-2025-9907
• CVE-2025-9908
• CVE-2025-59343
• CVE-2025-59682

References

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