Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 Product Security and Bug Fix Update
Affects Red HatSource GCVE Database
Not known to be exploited.
Data as of 26 Oct 2026, 17:16 UTC
Rated by Threat Radar · No CVSS score from NVD or the CNA
- EPSS
- 0.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days – higher than 48% of CVEsExploit Prediction Scoring System: the likelihood attackers will use this flaw soon.
Exploitation evidence
Disclosed: evidence found.
CVE published 10 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 26 Oct 2026.
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): * automation-gateway: Mutation XSS in DOMPurify Due to Improper Template Literal Handling (CVE-2025-26791) 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 that would prevent some types of resources from getting synced if there was a naming conflict (AAP-41241) * Fixed an issue where login would fail for users who were members of a team or organization that had a naming conflict (AAP-41240) * Fixed an issue in the user collection module where running with state: present would cause a stack trace (AAP-40887) * Fixed an issue preventing the controller admin password to get set for the gateway admin account during upgrades (AAP-40839) * Fixed an issue that caused updates to SAML authenticators to ignore an updated public certificate provided via UI or API and then fail with the message "The certificate and private key do not match" (AAP-40767) * Allow services to request cloud.redhat.com settings from gateway using ServiceTokenAuth (AAP-39649) * Fixed ServiceAuthToken destroy method to allow HTTP delete via ServiceAuth to work properly (AAP-37630) * automation-gateway has been updated to 2.5.20250312 * python3.11-django-ansible-base has been updated to 2.5.20250312 Automation controller * Fixed the indirect host counting name to not record the hostname, but from the query result instead (AAP-41033) * Fixed OpaClient to initialize properly after timeouts and retries (AAP-40997) * Added service account credentials for Analytics in controller (AAP-40769) * Added a helper method in the API for fetching the service account token from sso.redhat.com (AAP-39637) * automation-controller has been updated to 4.6.9 Event-Driven Ansible * Fixed ansible-rulebook support for third party python libraries (AAP-41341) * Modified the behavior of the ansible-rulebook and Event-Driven Ansible to help with issues when the activation correctly started was considered unresponsive and scheduled for restarting (AAP-41070) * Added support for editing and copying of rulebook activations in the API (AAP-40254) * Rulebook activations' log message field is separated into timestamps and message fields (AAP-39743) * Fixed a bug where the activation was incorrectly restarted with the error message "Missing container for running activation" (AAP-39545) * Event streams now connect to PostgreSQL by using the certificates configured at the installation (AAP-39294) * User is now required to give a user defined name when copying a credential. The new credential name must be unique (AAP-39079) * Enhanced error messages related to Decision Environments (AAP-38941) * Decision environment urls are now validated against OCI specification to ensure successful authentication to the container registry when pulling the image (AAP-38822) * ansible-rulebook has been updated to 1.1.3 * automation-eda-controller has been updated to 1.1.6 Receptor: * Fixed an issue where receptor was creating too many inotify processes, and where the user would encounter a too many open files error (AAP-22605) * receptor has been updated to 1.5.3 Container-based Ansible Automation Platform * Corrected the URL in the postinstall code for automation hub to use the gateway proxy URL (AAP-41306) * Deprecated the variables eda_main_url and hub_main_url in favor of the gateway proxy URL (AAP-41306) * Receptor mesh connections are now created between all automation controller nodes (AAP-41102) * Fixed receptor configuration related to the container group instances type (AAP-40431) * Fixed behavior that would hide the errors during EDA status validation (AAP-40021) * Ensure the polkit RPM package is installed in order to enable user lingering (AAP-39860) * containerized installer setup has been updated to 2.5-11 RPM-based Ansible Automation Platform * Fixed an issue where SELinux relabeling didn't happen when fcontext rules were changed (AAP-40489) * Fixed an issue where the credentials for execution environments and decision environments hosted in automation hub were incorrectly configured (AAP-40419) * Fixed an issue where projects failed to sync due to incorrectly configured credentials for ansible collections hosted in automation hub (AAP-40418) * Managed CA will now correctly assign eligible groups during discovery during installation, backup