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A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects some unknown processing. The manipulation leads to argument injection. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-49520. The attack may be initiated remotely. There is no exploit available. Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (affected version unknown). It has been declared as critical. This vulnerability affects an unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a argument injection vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-88. The product constructs a string for a command to be executed by a separate component in another control sphere, but it does not properly delimit the intended arguments, options, or switches within that command string. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. CVE summarizes:

A flaw was found in Ansible Automation Platform’s EDA component where user-supplied Git URLs are passed unsanitized to the git ls-remote command. This vulnerability allows an authenticated attacker to inject arguments and execute arbitrary commands on the EDA worker. In Kubernetes/OpenShift environments, this can lead to service account token theft and cluster access.

The advisory is shared for download at access.redhat.com. This vulnerability was named CVE-2025-49520 since 06/06/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be initiated remotely. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The current price for an exploit might be approx. USD $5k-$25k (estimation calculated on 07/01/2025). The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1059.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 241026 (RHEL 8 / 9 : Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 Product Security and Bug Fix Update (Important) (RHSA-2025:9986)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (241026) and EUVD (EUVD-2025-19585). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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• Automation Software

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• Red Hat

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• Ansible Automation Platform

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• open-source

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