Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 cross-site request forgery

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2. The affected element is an unknown function. Such manipulation leads to cross-site request forgery. This vulnerability is listed as CVE-2025-5988. The attack may be performed from remote. There is no available exploit.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a cross-site request forgery vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-352. The web application does not, or can not, sufficiently verify whether a well-formed, valid, consistent request was intentionally provided by the user who submitted the request. Impacted is integrity. CVE summarizes:

A flaw was found in the Ansible aap-gateway. Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) origin checking is not done on requests from the gateway to external components, such as the controller, hub, and eda.

The advisory is available at access.redhat.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2025-5988 since 06/11/2025. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. Successful exploitation requires user interaction by the victim. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. The structure of the vulnerability defines a possible price range of USD $0-$5k at the moment (estimation calculated on 08/13/2025).

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 243449 (RHEL 8 / 9 : Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 Product Security and Bug Fix Update (Moderate) (RHSA-2025:12772)), 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 (243449), EUVD (EUVD-2025-23518) and CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2025-1715). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

Affected

  • Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform

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CVSSv3info

VulDB Meta Base Score: 4.8
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 4.8

VulDB Base Score: 4.3
VulDB Temp Score: 4.3
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CNA Base Score: 5.3
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Cross-site request forgery
CWE: CWE-352 / CWE-862 / CWE-863
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Nessus ID: 243449
Nessus Name: RHEL 8 / 9 : Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 Product Security and Bug Fix Update (Moderate) (RHSA-2025:12772)

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

06/11/2025 CVE reserved
08/04/2025 +54 days Advisory disclosed
08/04/2025 +0 days VulDB entry created
08/13/2025 +9 days VulDB entry last update

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: redhat.com

Advisory: access.redhat.com
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2025-5988 (🔒)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2025-5988
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-318698
EUVD: 🔒
CERT Bund: WID-SEC-2025-1715 - Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform: Schwachstelle ermöglicht Offenlegung von Informationen

Entryinfo

Created: 08/04/2025 17:39
Updated: 08/13/2025 11:25
Changes: 08/04/2025 17:39 (62), 08/05/2025 15:44 (7), 08/05/2025 16:10 (2), 08/06/2025 04:24 (1), 08/13/2025 11:25 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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