CVE-2025-26699VulnerabilityPublished 25 Mar 2025Updated 6 Sep 2026

Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 Container Release Update

Affects Red HatSource GCVE Database

Mentioned vulnerabilities

CVE-2025-27516

Not known to be exploited : upgrade to 2.6.0 soon.

Data as of 26 Oct 2026, 07:57 UTC

Severity

High

Rated by Threat Radar · No CVSS score from NVD or the CNA

EPSS: 0.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 57% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
Patch: Available – fixed in 2.6.0

Exploitation evidence

Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 25 Mar 2025
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponised: no evidence on record.
No public exploit code indexed in Metasploit or Exploit-DB
Exploited in the wildExploited: no evidence on record.
Not in CISA KEV and no source reports exploitation
Observed by OffSeq MirageSeen by Mirage: no evidence on record.
No attack traffic recorded by OffSeq Mirage sensors

A missing step is not evidence of safety. Sources: cve.org (opens in a new tab), the Metasploit, Exploit-DB and nuclei-templates index as of 2026-10-26.

Disclosed: The CVE record is public on cve.org. Its publication is t = 0.
Detectable: A public nuclei template can find exposed instances, for defenders and attackers alike.
Weaponised: Public exploit code exists in Metasploit or Exploit-DB, or CISA SSVC reports a public proof of concept.
Exploited in the wild: CISA KEV lists it, CISA SSVC rates exploitation active, or a source reports attacks.
Observed by OffSeq Mirage: OffSeq Mirage honeypot sensors recorded attack traffic for this CVE, or found exposed hosts without attack traffic.

Moments are spaced evenly, not to scale; a dashed line marks a gap of six months or more. Deltas count from t = 0. Sources that give only a date (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, or a time of exactly 00:00Z) read “same day” rather than hours. Metasploit modules carry the flaw’s disclosure date, not their release date, and nuclei templates carry no date, so both appear above but not on the timeline.

What to do

Upgrade Red Hat to 2.6.0.

Affected software

Product	Affected	Fixed in
Red Hat Product Security Red Hat	Affected >=2.5.0 <2.6.0 Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8 Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9	Fixed in 2.6.0

AI-suggested

Red Hat has released official patches and updates for Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 to address this vulnerability. Users should apply the updates provided in Red Hat Security Advisories RHSA-2025:3160 and RHSA-2025:3162. The updates include fixed versions of python3.11-django and related components. No additional mitigation steps are required beyond applying the official fixes.

Description

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-lightspeed-container: Jinja sandbox breakout through attr filter selecting format method (CVE-2025-27516) * ansible-lightspeed-container: 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. Update(s) and Fix(es): * Legacy Controller API info link on the Controller redirect page is now fixed (AAP-41510) * AAP Backups no longer fail when writing yaml to the PVC on Openshift clusters with Openshift Virtualization installed (AAP-28609) * The ansible.controller collection has been updated to 4.6.10 * The ansible.platform collection has been updated to 2.5.20250326

Impact

The vulnerability could allow an attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition in the affected Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 installations by exploiting the django.utils.text.wrap() function. This may disrupt automation workflows and impact availability of the automation platform. No known exploits in the wild have been reported. The severity is rated as high by Red Hat Product Security.

Summary

The vulnerability CVE-2025-26699 affects the django.utils.text.wrap() function used in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5, potentially enabling denial-of-service conditions. This is a known issue tracked under CWE-400 (Uncontrolled Resource Consumption) and CWE-1336. Red Hat has released an official security advisory (RHSA-2025:3160 and RHSA-2025:3162) providing patches and updates to mitigate this vulnerability. The affected product versions include Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8 and RHEL 9 across multiple architectures. The advisory also addresses another critical vulnerability involving Jinja sandbox breakout (CVE-2025-27516).

CWE-400Uncontrolled Resource Consumption (opens in a new tab)
Class weaknessLikelihood of exploit: High
The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource.
MITRE discourages mapping vulnerabilities to this broad entry; the root cause is usually a more specific weakness.
Architecture and Design
Design throttling mechanisms into the system architecture. The best protection is to limit the amount of resources that an unauthorized user can cause to be expended. A strong authentication and access control model will help prevent such attacks from occurring in the first place.
Architecture and Design
Mitigation of resource exhaustion attacks requires that the target system either: recognizes the attack and denies that user further access for a given amount of time, or; uniformly throttles all requests in order to make it more difficult to consume resources more quickly than they can again be freed.
Architecture and Design
Ensure that protocols have specific limits of scale placed on them.
OWASP Cheat Sheets
File Upload (opens in a new tab)
OWASP ASVS 4.0.3
V12.1.1 (opens in a new tab)
Attack patterns
XML Ping of the Death (opens in a new tab)
Regular Expression Exponential Blowup (opens in a new tab)
Sustained Client Engagement (opens in a new tab)
From MITRE CWE, MITRE CAPEC and OWASP (Top 10, OpenCRE).
CWE-1336Improper Neutralization of Special Elements Used in a Template Engine (opens in a new tab)
Base weakness
The product uses a template engine to insert or process externally-influenced input, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements or syntax that can be interpreted as template expressions or other code directives when processed by the engine.
Architecture and Design
Choose a template engine that offers a sandbox or restricted mode, or at least limits the power of any available expressions, function calls, or commands.
Implementation
Use the template engine's sandbox or restricted mode, if available.
OWASP Cheat Sheets
Abuse Case (opens in a new tab)
Deserialization (opens in a new tab)
Server Side Request Forgery Prevention (opens in a new tab)
Unvalidated Redirects and Forwards (opens in a new tab)
Cross Site Scripting Prevention (opens in a new tab)
OWASP ASVS 4.0.3
V1.5.1 (opens in a new tab)
V5.2.8 (opens in a new tab)
V5.2.5 (opens in a new tab)
From MITRE CWE, MITRE CAPEC and OWASP (Top 10, OpenCRE).

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Description

AI analysisMachine-generated, updated 14 Aug 2026, 22:54 UTC

WeaknessesCWE-400, CWE-1336

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