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RHEL 8 / 9 : Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 Product Security and Bug Fix Update (Important) (RHSA-2025:3637)
medium Nessus Plugin ID 234265
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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 a package installed that is affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2025:3637 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):
* ansible-rulebook: exposure inventory passwords in plain text when starting a rulebook activation with verbosity set to debug in EDA (CVE-2025-2877)
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
* Authentication configuration for AzureAD/EntraId now have configurable name for groups claim to allow customization of the claim name (AAP-42890)
* Fixed an issue where there was non-viable information disclosure (AAP-39977)
* automation-gateway has been updated to 2.5.20250409
* python3.11-django-ansible-base has been updated to 2.5.20250409
Event-Driven Ansible
* Fixed a bug where activations attached with some event stream could not be created in deployments configured with postgresql with mTLS (AAP-42268)
* ansible-rulebook has been updated to 1.1.4
* automation-eda-controller has been updated to 1.1.7
Container-based Ansible Automation Platform
* Implemented variables for applying extra_settings for controller, eda, gateway and hub during the installation (AAP-42932)
* Ensure remote user is part of the systemd-journal group to be able to access container logs (AAP-42755)
* Implemented exclusions to the restore rules (AAP-42781)
* Implemented validation and cleanup for service nodes on a restore to a new cluster (AAP-42781)
* containerized installer setup has been updated to 2.5-12
RPM-based Ansible Automation Platform
* When upgrading from an earlier 2.5, you must use the latest installer 2.5-11. If you use an earlier installer, the installation might fail.
* Fixed issue preventing EDA worker nodes re-authenticating tokens (AAP-42981)
* Fixed an issue where bundle installer has failed to updatie automation-controller and aap-metrics- utility in the same run (AAP-42632)
* Fixed an issue where envoy failed to run on certain RHEL9 machines (AAP-39211)
* Fixed an issue where Platform UI wasn't loading when gateway was on FIPS enabled RHEL 9 (AAP-39146)
* ansible-automation-platform-installer and installer setup have been updated to 2.5-11
Additional changes:
* automation-controller has been updated to 4.6.11
* automation-gateway-proxy has been updated to 2.5.9
* automation-gateway-proxy-openssl30 2.6.6 has been added
* automation-gateway-proxy-openssl32 2.6.6 has been added
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 ansible-rulebook package.See Also
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2355540
Plugin Details
Severity: Medium
ID: 234265
File Name: redhat-RHSA-2025-3637.nasl
Version: 1.1
Type: local
Agent: unix
Family: Red Hat Local Security Checks
Published: 4/13/2025
Updated: 4/13/2025
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: Important
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.8
Temporal Score: 5
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:N/A:N
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-2877
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Medium
Base Score: 6.5
Temporal Score: 5.7
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/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, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:ansible-rulebook, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9
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: 4/7/2025
Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/28/2025
Reference Information
CVE: CVE-2025-2877