The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 / 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:1954 advisory.

    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.

    An issue was found in affected versions of Ansible Automation Platform that enabled a lesser privileged     user (even unauthenticated) promotion to a greater privileged user.

    All Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 customers should upgrade their environments to the latest version as     soon as possible.

    Ansible Automation Platform on Microsoft Azure and Ansible Automation Platform Service on AWS environments     have already been patched by Red Hat.

    Security Fix(es):

    * automation-gateway: aap-gateway privilege escalation (CVE-2025-1801)

    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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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RHEL 8 / 9 : Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 Product Security and Bug Fix Update (Important) (RHSA-2025:1954)

high Nessus Plugin ID 216983

Version 1.1