RHSA-2025:3160 - 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 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-controller: Jinja sandbox breakout through attr filter selecting format method (CVE-2025-27516)
• python3.11-jinja2: Jinja sandbox breakout through attr filter selecting format method (CVE-2025-27516)
• python3.11-django: Potential denial-of-service vulnerability in django.utils.text.wrap() (CVE-2025-26699)

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 an issue when migrating user accounts with invalid email addresses, the process would print a message showing the user name of the user whose email address has been removed (AAP-42146)
• When migrating user accounts with invalid email addresses the process will print a message showing the user name of the user whose email address has been removed (AAP-41675)
• automation-gateway has been updated to 2.5.20250326
• python3.11-django-ansible-base has been updated to 2.5.20250326

Automation controller

• Fixed the host metrics to no longer collect host metrics for dark/unreachable hosts (AAP-41567)
• Removed ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATHS from the controller’s job output due to the discontinuation of ansible-engine 2.9 (AAP-41566)
• Fixed the system auditor to no longer download the execution node install bundle (AAP-37922)
• Fixed host records to no longer be added to the HostMetric if the host had only failures or unreachable tasks done (AAP-32094)
• automation-controller has been updated to 4.6.10

Automation hub

• Fixed an issue where the user could not delete automation hub teams on the resource API (AAP-42158)
• Added a migration file to set the default value of retain_repo_versions to 1 for validated repositories (AAP-42005)
• automation-hub has been updated to 4.10.3
• python3.11-galaxy-ng has been updated to 4.10.3
• python3.11-pulpcore has been updated to 3.49.34

RPM-based Ansible Automation Platform

• Fixed issue where preflight was not accounting for automationgateway being a CA server node (AAP-41817)
• Fixed gateway installations which resulted in failures in environments with IPv6 due to nginx configuration timing (AAP-41816)
• ansible-automation-platform-installer and installer setup have been updated to 2.5-10

Additional changes:

• python3.11-django has been updated to 4.2.20
• python3.11-jinja2 has been updated to 3.1.6

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 Inside 1.3 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Inside 1.3 for RHEL 9 s390x
• Red Hat Ansible Inside 1.3 for RHEL 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Ansible Inside 1.3 for RHEL 9 aarch64
• Red Hat Ansible Inside 1.3 for RHEL 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Inside 1.3 for RHEL 8 s390x
• Red Hat Ansible Inside 1.3 for RHEL 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Ansible Inside 1.3 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 - 2348993 - CVE-2025-26699 django: Potential denial-of-service vulnerability in django.utils.text.wrap()
• BZ - 2350190 - CVE-2025-27516 jinja2: Jinja sandbox breakout through attr filter selecting format method

CVEs

• CVE-2025-26699
• CVE-2025-27516

References

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