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A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component EDA Component. The manipulation leads to code injection. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-49521. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best vulnerability data.

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A vulnerability classified as critical was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (the affected version is unknown). Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown code of the component EDA Component. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a code injection vulnerability. The CWE definition for the vulnerability is CWE-94. The product constructs all or part of a code segment using externally-influenced input from an upstream component, but it does not neutralize or incorrectly neutralizes special elements that could modify the syntax or behavior of the intended code segment. As an impact it is known to affect confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

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.

It is possible to read the advisory at access.redhat.com. This vulnerability is known as CVE-2025-49521 since 06/06/2025. The exploitation appears to be easy. The attack can be launched remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The pricing for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 07/01/2025). The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1059 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

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-2025-19586). Several companies clearly confirm that VulDB is the primary source for best 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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