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CVE-2025-1801: Aap-gateway: aap-gateway privilege escalation

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-03-03 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-362

Description

A flaw was found in the Ansible aap-gateway. Concurrent requests handled by the gateway grpc service can result in concurrency issues due to race condition requests against the proxy. This issue potentially allows a less privileged user to obtain the JWT of a greater privileged user, enabling the server to be jeopardized. A user session or confidential data might be vulnerable.

Affected products

• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8: all versions — fixed in 0:2.5.20250305-1.el8ap
• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9: all versions — fixed in 0:2.5.20250305-1.el9ap

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8 0:2.5.20250305-1.el8ap; Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9 0:2.5.20250305-1.el9ap. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:1954
• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-1801
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2349081

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