RHSA-2026:71112 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update is now available for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7

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):

• python-sqlparse: Denial of Service via quadratic CPU consumption in SQL parsing (CVE-2026-54284)
• python-sqlparse: Denial of Service via inefficient SQL parsing (CVE-2026-59893)
• python-sqlparse: Denial of Service via quadratic CPU consumption in comment grouping (CVE-2026-71491)
• python3.12-sqlparse: Denial of Service via quadratic CPU consumption in SQL parsing (CVE-2026-54284)
• python3.12-sqlparse: Denial of Service via inefficient SQL parsing (CVE-2026-59893)
• python3.12-sqlparse: Denial of Service via quadratic CPU consumption in comment grouping (CVE-2026-71491)
• receptor: Go html/template: Cross-Site Scripting via pathological input (CVE-2026-56858)
• receptor: Go: Denial of Service via XML decoding recursion depth issue (CVE-2026-56859)
• receptor: golang net/url: Denial of Service from quadratic complexity in path resolution (CVE-2026-56860)
• receptor: Go encoding/asn1: Denial of Service via excessive recursion in Unmarshal (CVE-2026-33818)
• receptor: Golang crypto/tls: Denial of Service via indefinite KeyUpdate messages (CVE-2026-56862)
• receptor: Go net/http: Unencrypted HTTP/2 connections vulnerable to Denial of Service (CVE-2026-56853)

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.

For details about this release, refer to the release notes listed in the References section.

Solution

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7 for RHEL 10 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7 for RHEL 10 aarch64
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7 for RHEL 9 aarch64
• Red Hat Ansible Inside 1.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Inside 1.5 aarch64
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.4 for RHEL 10 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.4 for RHEL 10 aarch64
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.4 for RHEL 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Ansible Developer 1.4 for RHEL 9 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2515815 - CVE-2026-33818 encoding/asn1: golang: Go encoding/asn1: Denial of Service via excessive recursion in Unmarshal
• BZ - 2515820 - CVE-2026-56860 net/url: golang: golang net/url: Denial of Service from quadratic complexity in path resolution
• BZ - 2515827 - CVE-2026-56853 net/http: golang: Go net/http: Unencrypted HTTP/2 connections vulnerable to Denial of Service
• BZ - 2515838 - CVE-2026-56858 html/template: golang: Go html/template: Cross-Site Scripting via pathological input
• BZ - 2515839 - CVE-2026-56862 crypto/tls: golang: Golang crypto/tls: Denial of Service via indefinite KeyUpdate messages
• BZ - 2515840 - CVE-2026-56859 encoding/xml: golang: Go: Denial of Service via XML decoding recursion depth issue
• BZ - 2517518 - CVE-2026-71491 sqlparse: sqlparse: Denial of Service via quadratic CPU consumption in comment grouping
• BZ - 2517523 - CVE-2026-59893 sqlparse: sqlparse: Denial of Service via inefficient SQL parsing
• BZ - 2517527 - CVE-2026-54284 sqlparse: sqlparse: Denial of Service via quadratic CPU consumption in SQL parsing

CVEs

• CVE-2026-33818
• CVE-2026-54284
• CVE-2026-56853
• CVE-2026-56858
• CVE-2026-56859
• CVE-2026-56860
• CVE-2026-56862
• CVE-2026-59893
• CVE-2026-71491

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_ansible_automation_platform/2.7/whats_new-async_updates
• https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_ansible_automation_platform/2.7#Upgrade