Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 Container Release Update
Affects Red HatSource GCVE Database
Not known to be exploited.
Data as of 31 Oct 2026, 20:20 UTC
Rated by Threat Radar · No CVSS score from NVD or the CNA
- EPSS
- 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 49% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
Exploitation evidence
Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 4 Aug 2025
Detectable: no evidence on record.
No public nuclei template indexed
Weaponized: 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 31 Oct 2026.
What to do
AI-suggested
Red Hat has released updated container images and collection versions that fix this vulnerability. Users of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 should apply the official updates as provided in Red Hat Security Advisory RHSA-2025:12791. The advisory lists updated versions of ansible.controller (4.6.18), ansible.eda (2.8.2), ansible.windows (2.8.0), and redhat.rhel_system_roles (1.95.7). Applying these updates mitigates the ReDoS vulnerability. No additional mitigation actions are required beyond applying the official fixes.
Description
A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability (CVE-2025-2099) was identified in the ansible-lightspeed-chatbot-container component of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5. This vulnerability is related to the huggingface/transformers library. Red Hat has released an update for Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 that addresses this issue along with updates to several Ansible collections.