RHEL 8 / 9 : Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 Product Security and Bug Fix Update (Moderate) (RHSA-2025:21706)

high Nessus Plugin ID 275715

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Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing a security update.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 / 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:21706 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):

* receptor: quic-go Crash Due to Premature HANDSHAKE_DONE Frame (CVE-2025-59530)

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 3.11 (AAP-53469)
* Nginx has been updated to 1.24 (AAP-53989 and AAP-53990)

Refer to Release Notes for details about Python 3.11 update.

Automation controller
* Added support for Red Hat username and password for the subscription management API (AAP-56887)
* Added a step in the subscription wizard that allows the user to configure automation analytics (AAP-56061)
* Added two new toggle options on the subscription wizard to allow for fetching subscriptions using basic authentication (AAP-56060)
* Fixed an issue in receptor where some edge cases caused JSON to fail to parse (AAP-55917)
* Fixed an issue in ansible-runner where there was not a meaningful error message whenever the streaming of logs was aborted
* ansible-runner has been updated to 2.3.7
* automation-controller has been updated to 4.5.27
* receptor has been updated to 1.6.2

Installer and setup
* Set REDHAT_CANDLEPIN_VERIFY to correct CA pem so that controller can make requests to subscription.rhsm.redhat.com (AAP-57020)
* RHEL minimum version has been updated to 8.10 and 9.4 (AAP-56387)
* installer and setup have been updated to 2.4-14

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.

Solution

Update the affected receptor and / or receptorctl packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 275715

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-21706.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks

Published: 11/18/2025

Updated: 11/18/2025

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Moderate

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.8

Temporal Score: 5.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-59530

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:receptor, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:receptorctl, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

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: 11/18/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/10/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-59530

CWE: 755

RHSA: 2025:21706

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