RHSA-2025:3637 - 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):

• ansible-rulebook: exposure inventory passwords in plain text when starting a rulebook activation with verbosity set to debug in EDA (CVE-2025-2877)

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

• Authentication configuration for AzureAD/EntraId now have configurable name for groups claim to allow customization of the claim name (AAP-42890)
• Fixed an issue where there was non-viable information disclosure (AAP-39977)
• automation-gateway has been updated to 2.5.20250409
• python3.11-django-ansible-base has been updated to 2.5.20250409

Event-Driven Ansible

• Fixed a bug where activations attached with some event stream could not be created in deployments configured with postgresql with mTLS (AAP-42268)
• ansible-rulebook has been updated to 1.1.4
• automation-eda-controller has been updated to 1.1.7

Container-based Ansible Automation Platform

• Implemented variables for applying extra_settings for controller, eda, gateway and hub during the installation (AAP-42932)
• Ensure remote user is part of the systemd-journal group to be able to access container logs (AAP-42755)
• Implemented exclusions to the restore rules (AAP-42781)
• Implemented validation and cleanup for service nodes on a restore to a new cluster (AAP-42781)
• containerized installer setup has been updated to 2.5-12

RPM-based Ansible Automation Platform

• When upgrading from an earlier 2.5, you must use the latest installer 2.5-11. If you use an earlier installer, the installation might fail.
• Fixed issue preventing EDA worker nodes re-authenticating tokens (AAP-42981)
• Fixed an issue where bundle installer has failed to updatie automation-controller and aap-metrics-utility in the same run (AAP-42632)
• Fixed an issue where envoy failed to run on certain RHEL9 machines (AAP-39211)
• Fixed an issue where Platform UI wasn't loading when gateway was on FIPS enabled RHEL 9 (AAP-39146)
• ansible-automation-platform-installer and installer setup have been updated to 2.5-11

Additional changes:

• automation-controller has been updated to 4.6.11
• automation-gateway-proxy has been updated to 2.5.9
• automation-gateway-proxy-openssl30 2.6.6 has been added
• automation-gateway-proxy-openssl32 2.6.6 has been added

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 - 2355540 - CVE-2025-2877 event-driven-ansible: exposure inventory passwords in plain text when starting a rulebook activation with verbosity set to debug in EDA

CVEs

• CVE-2025-2877

References

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