Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Execution Environments Container Release Update
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): * ee-minimal-container: aiohttp vulnerable to request smuggling due to incorrect parsing of chunk extensions (CVE-2024-52304) * ee-minimal-container: Jinja has a sandbox breakout through malicious filenames (CVE-2024-56201) * ee-minimal-container: Jinja has a sandbox breakout through indirect reference to format method (CVE-2024-56326)
AI Analysis
Technical Summary
The Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Execution Environments container images include three notable security flaws. CVE-2024-52304 involves aiohttp being vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling attacks due to improper parsing of chunk extensions. CVE-2024-56201 and CVE-2024-56326 are sandbox breakout vulnerabilities in the Jinja templating engine, exploitable via malicious filenames and indirect references to the format method, respectively. These vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to bypass sandbox restrictions within the container environment. Red Hat has released updated container images to remediate these issues as part of advisory RHSA-2025:0753.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation of CVE-2024-52304 could allow an attacker to perform HTTP request smuggling attacks, potentially interfering with request handling. The Jinja sandbox breakout vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-56201 and CVE-2024-56326) could enable an attacker to escape sandbox restrictions, potentially leading to unauthorized code execution or privilege escalation within the execution environment container. These vulnerabilities affect the security boundaries of automation tasks run within the Ansible Automation Platform Execution Environments.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released updated container images for the Ansible Automation Platform Execution Environments that address these vulnerabilities. Users should apply the updates provided in Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2025:0753 to remediate these issues. Patch status is confirmed by the vendor advisory. No additional mitigation steps are specified beyond applying the updated container releases.
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Execution Environments Container Release Update
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): * ee-minimal-container: aiohttp vulnerable to request smuggling due to incorrect parsing of chunk extensions (CVE-2024-52304) * ee-minimal-container: Jinja has a sandbox breakout through malicious filenames (CVE-2024-56201) * ee-minimal-container: Jinja has a sandbox breakout through indirect reference to format method (CVE-2024-56326)
Affected software
AI-Powered Analysis
Machine-generated threat intelligence
Technical Analysis
The Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Execution Environments container images include three notable security flaws. CVE-2024-52304 involves aiohttp being vulnerable to HTTP request smuggling attacks due to improper parsing of chunk extensions. CVE-2024-56201 and CVE-2024-56326 are sandbox breakout vulnerabilities in the Jinja templating engine, exploitable via malicious filenames and indirect references to the format method, respectively. These vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to bypass sandbox restrictions within the container environment. Red Hat has released updated container images to remediate these issues as part of advisory RHSA-2025:0753.
Potential Impact
Successful exploitation of CVE-2024-52304 could allow an attacker to perform HTTP request smuggling attacks, potentially interfering with request handling. The Jinja sandbox breakout vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-56201 and CVE-2024-56326) could enable an attacker to escape sandbox restrictions, potentially leading to unauthorized code execution or privilege escalation within the execution environment container. These vulnerabilities affect the security boundaries of automation tasks run within the Ansible Automation Platform Execution Environments.
Mitigation Recommendations
Red Hat has released updated container images for the Ansible Automation Platform Execution Environments that address these vulnerabilities. Users should apply the updates provided in Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2025:0753 to remediate these issues. Patch status is confirmed by the vendor advisory. No additional mitigation steps are specified beyond applying the updated container releases.
Technical Details
- Gcve Source
- db.gcve.eu
- Csaf Category
- csaf_security_advisory
- Csaf Version
- 2.0
- Publisher
- Red Hat Product Security
- Advisory Id
- RHSA-2025:0753
- Cve Count
- 3
- Additional Cves
- ["CVE-2024-56201","CVE-2024-56326"]
Threat ID: 6a1f4e97e29bf47b500862a3
Added to database: 06/02/2026, 21:43:51 UTC
Last enriched: 08/11/2026, 20:43:40 UTC
Last updated: 09/10/2026, 19:36:48 UTC
Views: 84
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