RHEL 8 / 9 : Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 Product Security and Bug Fix Update (Important) (RHSA-2025:3160)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 233518

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-2025:3160 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-controller: Jinja sandbox breakout through attr filter selecting format method (CVE-2025-27516)

* python3.11-jinja2: Jinja sandbox breakout through attr filter selecting format method (CVE-2025-27516)

* python3.11-django: Potential denial-of-service vulnerability in django.utils.text.wrap() (CVE-2025-26699)

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 an issue when migrating user accounts with invalid email addresses, the process would print a message showing the user name of the user whose email address has been removed (AAP-42146)
* When migrating user accounts with invalid email addresses the process will print a message showing the user name of the user whose email address has been removed (AAP-41675)
* automation-gateway has been updated to 2.5.20250326
* python3.11-django-ansible-base has been updated to 2.5.20250326

Automation controller
* Fixed the host metrics to no longer collect host metrics for dark/unreachable hosts (AAP-41567)
* Removed ANSIBLE_COLLECTIONS_PATHS from the controllers job output due to the discontinuation of ansible-engine 2.9 (AAP-41566)
* Fixed the system auditor to no longer download the execution node install bundle (AAP-37922)
* Fixed host records to no longer be added to the HostMetric if the host had only failures or unreachable tasks done (AAP-32094)
* automation-controller has been updated to 4.6.10

Automation hub
* Fixed an issue where the user could not delete automation hub teams on the resource API (AAP-42158)
* Added a migration file to set the default value of retain_repo_versions to 1 for validated repositories (AAP-42005)
* automation-hub has been updated to 4.10.3
* python3.11-galaxy-ng has been updated to 4.10.3
* python3.11-pulpcore has been updated to 3.49.34

RPM-based Ansible Automation Platform
* Fixed issue where preflight was not accounting for automationgateway being a CA server node (AAP-41817)
* Fixed gateway installations which resulted in failures in environments with IPv6 due to nginx configuration timing (AAP-41816)
* ansible-automation-platform-installer and installer setup have been updated to 2.5-10

Additional changes:
* python3.11-django has been updated to 4.2.20
* python3.11-jinja2 has been updated to 3.1.6

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-controller-venv-tower, python3.11-django and / or python3.11-jinja2 packages.

See Also

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

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2348993

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2350190

http://www.nessus.org/u?f6dc8d1a

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:3160

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 233518

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-3160.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 3/29/2025

Updated: 3/29/2025

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: 6.7

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-27516

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 4.4

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

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-26699

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.4

Threat Score: 2

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:P/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3.11-django, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:python3.11-jinja2, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:automation-controller-venv-tower, 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: 3/25/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/5/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-26699, CVE-2025-27516

CWE: 1336, 400

RHSA: 2025:3160