CVE-2025-49521

Summary

A flaw was found in the EDA component of the Ansible Automation Platform, where user-supplied Git branch or refspec values are evaluated as Jinja2 templates. This vulnerability allows authenticated users to inject expressions that execute commands or access sensitive files on the EDA worker. In OpenShift, it can lead to service account token theft.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
Red HatRed Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 80:1.1.11-1.el8ap < *unaffected
Red HatRed Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 90:1.1.11-1.el9ap < *unaffected

Weaknesses

  • CWE-94: Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')

Workarounds

Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options don't meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base or stability.

ADP Enrichment

CISA ADP Vulnrichment

  • SSVC:
  • Exploitation: none
    • Automatable: no
    • Technical Impact: total

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