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RHEL 8 / 9 : Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 Product Security and Bug Fix Update (Moderate) (RHSA-2025:12772)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 243449

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 / 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2025:12772 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.

 Security Fix(es):

 * automation-gateway: CSRF origin checking is disabled (CVE-2025-5988)
 * python3.11-django-ansible-base: Sensitive Authenticator Secrets Returned in Clear Text via API in AAP (CVE-2025-7738)

 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

 * Fixed the fields content_type for role user assignments to indicate that null values are valid responses from the API (AAP-49494)
 * Checking DB status done by the GRPC server and by Gateway status API is now done in separate thread to avoid creating extra DB connections (AAP-49383)
 * PosixUIDGroupType can now be selected for LDAP Group Type (AAP-49347)
 * Added case insensitivity for authentication map user attribute names and values and for group names.
 Feature flag FEATURE_CASE_INSENSITIVE_AUTH_MAPS must be set to true to enable case insensitive comparisons (AAP-49327)
 * Fixed an issue where auto-complete was not disabled on all forms for sensitive information such as usernames, passwords, secret keys, etc (AAP-49079)
 * Fixed an issue related to workflow job template limits overriding workflow job template node limits upon save (AAP-48946)
 * Optimized the handling of web socket messages from the Workflow Visualizer (AAP-46800)
 * Fixed the Min and Max Limit values displayed on the Edit Survey form (AAP-39933)
 * automation-gateway has been updated to 2.5.20250730
 * python3.11-django-ansible-base has been updated to 2.5.20250730

 Automation controller
 * Removed api version from hardcoded url in inventory plugin (AAP-48443)
 * Updated the injectors for the AAP credential type to work across collections (AAP-47877)
 * Fixed 404 error for workflow nodes (AAP-47362)
 * automation-controller has been updated to 4.6.18

 Automation hub
 * automation-hub has been updated to 4.10.6
 * python3.11-galaxy-ng has been updated to 4.10.6

 Container-based Ansible Automation Platform
 * Fixed permission issues when restoring Automation hub with NFS storage (AAP-50118)
 * Added an exclusion parameter for backup, allowing users to specify snapshot paths to be excluded from the backup process (AAP-50114)
 * Fixed the issue where execution instances removed from the inventory would still be visible on the Topology View (AAP-48615)
 * Fixed a bug restoring Automation hub to a new cluster when using NFS for the hub data filesystem (AAP-48568)
 * containerized installer setup has been updated to 2.5-17

 RPM-based Ansible Automation Platform
 * The installer now allow passing gunicorn timeout to EDA api service unit (AAP-49858)
 * Installer will now only open event stream ports to the firewall on EDA event stream nodes (AAP-49792)
 * Align envoy, nginx, web server, and jwt token timeouts to avoid issues where requests time out but work continues or tokens expire before they are used (AAP-49153)
 * EDA node type is now properly checked during restore (AAP-49004)
 * Fixed an issue where gRPC server port wasn't configured properly when non-default value was used (AAP-48543)
 * ansible-automation-platform-installer and installer setup have been updated to 2.5-16

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

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

Solution

Update the affected automation-gateway-server and / or python3.11-django-ansible-base packages.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2371644

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2381589

http://www.nessus.org/u?0e8dc558

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:12772

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 243449

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-12772.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 8/4/2025

Updated: 8/4/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.4

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.9

Temporal Score: 3.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-5988

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:automation-gateway-server, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3.11-django-ansible-base

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/4/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/31/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-5988, CVE-2025-7738

CWE: 312, 352

RHSA: 2025:12772