RHSA-2026:1506 - 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: urllib3 Streaming API improperly handles highly compressed data (CVE-2025-66471)
• automation controller: AIOHTTP's HTTP Parser auto_decompress feature is vulnerable to zip bomb (CVE-2025-69223)
• automation-controller: Django: algorithmic complexity in XML Deserializer leads to denial of service (CVE-2025-64460)
• automation-controller: AIOHTTP HTTP Request/Response Smuggling (CVE-2025-53643)
• python3.11-django: Django: Algorithmic complexity in XML Deserializer leads to denial of service (CVE-2025-64460)
• python3.11-urllib3: urllib3 Streaming API improperly handles highly compressed data (CVE-2025-66471)
• receptor: Excessive resource consumption when printing error string for host certificate validation in crypto/x509 (CVE-2025-61729)

Updates and fixes included:

• ansible-core has been updated to 2.16.15
• ansible-dev-tools has been updated to 26.1.0
• ansible-lint has been updated to 26.1.0
• ansible-navigator has been updated to 26.1.1
• automation-controller has been updated to 4.6.25
• automation-gateway has been updated to 2.5.20260121
• automation-hub has been updated to 4.10.11
• python3.11-botocore has been updated to 1.34.162
• python3.11-django has been updated to 4.2.27
• python3.11-galaxy-importer has been updated to 0.4.37
• python3.11-galaxy-ng has been updated to 4.10.11
• python3.11-requests has been updated to 2.31.0
• python3.11-urllib3 has been updated to 2.6.3
• receptor has been updated to 1.6.3

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 - 2380000 - CVE-2025-53643 aiohttp: AIOHTTP HTTP Request/Response Smuggling
• BZ - 2418366 - CVE-2025-64460 Django: Django: Algorithmic complexity in XML Deserializer leads to denial of service
• BZ - 2418462 - CVE-2025-61729 crypto/x509: golang: Denial of Service due to excessive resource consumption via crafted certificate
• BZ - 2419467 - CVE-2025-66471 urllib3: urllib3 Streaming API improperly handles highly compressed data
• BZ - 2427456 - CVE-2025-69223 aiohttp: AIOHTTP's HTTP Parser auto_decompress feature is vulnerable to zip bomb

CVEs

• CVE-2025-53643
• CVE-2025-61729
• CVE-2025-64460
• CVE-2025-66471
• CVE-2025-69223

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_ansible_automation_platform/2.5/html/release_notes/patch_releases
• https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_ansible_automation_platform/2.5#Upgrading