RHSA-2026:3958 - 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-controller: wheel: Privilege Escalation or Arbitrary Code Execution via malicious wheel file unpacking (CVE-2026-24049)
• automation-controller: pyasn1 has a DoS vulnerability in decoder (CVE-2026-23490)
• automation-platform-ui: prototype pollution in _.unset and _.omit functions (CVE-2025-13465)
• automation-platform-ui: React Router has XSS Vulnerability (CVE-2025-59057)
• automation-platform-ui: React Router SSR XSS in ScrollRestoration (CVE-2026-21884)
• automation-platform-ui: React Router vulnerable to XSS via Open Redirects (CVE-2026-22029)
• python3.11-aiohttp: AIOHTTP's HTTP Parser auto_decompress feature is vulnerable to zip bomb (CVE-2025-69223)
• python3.11-django: Django: SQL injection via crafted column aliases in QuerySet.order_by() (CVE-2026-1312)
• python3.11-django: Django: SQL Injection via crafted column aliases (CVE-2026-1287)
• python3.11-django: Django: Denial of Service via crafted HTML inputs (CVE-2026-1285)
• python3.11-django: Django: SQL Injection via RasterField band index parameter (CVE-2026-1207)
• python3.11-django: Django: Denial of Service via crafted request with duplicate headers (CVE-2025-14550)
• python3.11-protobuf: Denial of Service in Python Protobuf (CVE-2026-0994)
• receptor: Memory exhaustion in query parameter parsing in net/url (CVE-2025-61726)

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:

• Python has been updated to 3.12 (AAP-56567)

IMPORTANT: All users must download the latest version of the installer. Attempting to install or upgrade with a previous version of the installer could result in failure.

Automation Platform

• Fix a bug where an Organization Administrator could not delegate permissions to objects within their organization (AAP-65081)
• Fixed a restore issue where feature flags table wasn't created/updated as expected even on partial migrations (AAP-65815)
• automation-gateway has been updated to 2.6.20260225

Automation Platform UI

• If the Project's source control branch is overridden by a Template or template Schedule, it is now displayed on the schedule detail and schedule edit form review step (AAP-60920)
• Fix issue preventing reordering more than 50 authentication mappings (AAP-59119)
• automation-platform-ui has been updated to 2.6.6

Automation controller

• Fixed an issue where the awx CLI modify command did not display available field flags for users who have an admin role on a specific resource but do not have permission to create new resources of that type (AAP-65813)
• Fixed the job list endpoint to no longer load the job artifacts, resulting in better performance (AAP-63489)
• Fixed missing RoleUserAssignment openapi schema component (AAP-60826)
• automation-controller has been updated to 4.7.9

Automation hub

• Updated _ui/v2 endoints to properly enforce RBAC permissions (AAP-66634)
• Added a static OpenAPI spec to galaxy that focuses the potential endpoints users can call (AAP-66415)
• Improved documentation for Hub OpenAPI spec (AAP-66412 and AAP-66410)
• automation-hub has been updated to 4.11.6

Event-Driven Ansible

• Added eda plugin lifecycle handling (deprecation, redirection, tombstoning) (AAP-62721)
• Overrode RQ's default heartbeat to call register_birth, allowing worker re-registration in case of worker disconnects from Redis, and also eliminating Ghost Workers. Also, rq version was updated to 2.6.1, which is a more recent and stable release (AAP-56872)
• ansible-rulebook has been updated to 1.2.1
• automation-eda-controller has been updated to 1.2.6

Container-based Ansible Automation Platform

• Fixed automation gateway preflight check which doesn't require ansible_host to be define anymore (AAP-65370)
• '/home/{{ ansible_user_id }}' path references in receptor configuration are replaced by the ansible_user_dir ansible fact (AAP-64452)
• Increased envoy request timeout from 1 second to 5 seconds (AAP-64323)
• Added retry mechanism when trying to get the Automation controller status (AAP-64291)
• Disabling TLS on envoy no longe causes controller connection error when running Merge organization task (AAP-62904)
• Fixed compatibility when jinja2 native is enabled on ansible core (AAP-62878)
• Removed TLS verification when pushing container images to the Automation hub registry and TLS is disabled (AAP-62864)
• URL anchors in the inventory samples was updated to reflect official documentation (AAP-55780)
• containerized installer setup has been updated to 2.6-6

RPM-based Ansible Automation Platform

• Increased envoy request timeout from 1 second to 5 seconds (AAP-64008)
• ansible-automation-platform-installer and installer setup have been updated to 2.6-5

Additional changes:

• ansible-core has been updated to 2.16.16
• All python3.11- prefixed rpms are replaced with python3.12- prefixed rpms

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, refer to Ansible Automation Platform documentation.

Affected Products

• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 10 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 10 s390x
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 10 ppc64le
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 10 aarch64
• 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 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Inside 1.4 s390x
• Red Hat Ansible Inside 1.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Ansible Inside 1.4 aarch64
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.3 for RHEL 10 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.3 for RHEL 10 s390x
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.3 for RHEL 10 ppc64le
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.3 for RHEL 10 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 - 2427456 - CVE-2025-69223 aiohttp: AIOHTTP's HTTP Parser auto_decompress feature is vulnerable to zip bomb
• BZ - 2428412 - CVE-2026-22029 @remix-run/router: react-router: React Router vulnerable to XSS via Open Redirects
• BZ - 2428421 - CVE-2026-21884 react-router: @remix-run/react: React Router SSR XSS in ScrollRestoration
• BZ - 2428426 - CVE-2025-59057 react-router: @remix-run/router: React Router XSS Vulnerability
• BZ - 2430472 - CVE-2026-23490 pyasn1: pyasn1: Denial of Service due to memory exhaustion from malformed RELATIVE-OID
• BZ - 2431740 - CVE-2025-13465 lodash: prototype pollution in _.unset and _.omit functions
• BZ - 2431959 - CVE-2026-24049 wheel: wheel: Privilege Escalation or Arbitrary Code Execution via malicious wheel file unpacking
• BZ - 2432398 - CVE-2026-0994 python: protobuf: Protobuf: Denial of Service due to recursion depth bypass
• BZ - 2434432 - CVE-2025-61726 golang: net/url: Memory exhaustion in query parameter parsing in net/url
• BZ - 2436338 - CVE-2026-1207 Django: Django: SQL Injection via RasterField band index parameter
• BZ - 2436339 - CVE-2026-1287 Django: Django: SQL Injection via crafted column aliases
• BZ - 2436340 - CVE-2026-1285 Django: Django: Denial of Service via crafted HTML inputs
• BZ - 2436341 - CVE-2025-14550 Django: Django: Denial of Service via crafted request with duplicate headers
• BZ - 2436342 - CVE-2026-1312 Django: Django: SQL injection via crafted column aliases in QuerySet.order_by()
• AAP-62864 - [2.6 Backport] AAP-61662 AAP2.6 containerized installer has hardcoded value of validate_certs, it should be based on the _disable_https parameters

CVEs

• CVE-2025-13465
• CVE-2025-14550
• CVE-2025-59057
• CVE-2025-61726
• CVE-2025-69223
• CVE-2026-0994
• CVE-2026-1207
• CVE-2026-1285
• CVE-2026-1287
• CVE-2026-1312
• CVE-2026-21884
• CVE-2026-22029
• CVE-2026-23490
• CVE-2026-24049

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_ansible_automation_platform/2.6/html/release_notes/patch_releases
• https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_ansible_automation_platform/2.6#Upgrade