Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 default permission

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A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2. It has been rated as critical. This affects an unknown part. The manipulation leads to default permission. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2025-57847. Local access is required to approach this attack. No exploit exists.

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A vulnerability was found in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2. It has been rated as critical. This issue affects an unknown function. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a default permission vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-276. During installation, installed file permissions are set to allow anyone to modify those files. Impacted is confidentiality, integrity, and availability. The summary by CVE is:

A container privilege escalation flaw was found in certain Ansible Automation Platform images. This issue arises from the /etc/passwd file being created with group-writable permissions during the build process. In certain conditions, an attacker who can execute commands within an affected container, even as a non-root user, can leverage their membership in the root group to modify the /etc/passwd file. This vulnerability allows an attacker to add a new user with any arbitrary UID, including UID 0, gaining full root privileges within the container.

The advisory is shared at access.redhat.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-57847 since 08/21/2025. The exploitation is known to be difficult. An attack has to be approached locally. Additional levels of successful authentication are required for exploitation. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. The price for an exploit might be around USD $5k-$25k at the moment (estimation calculated on 04/09/2026). MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1222 for this issue.

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 vulnerability database at CERT Bund (WID-SEC-2026-1033). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

Affected

• Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Red Hat OpenShift
• Red Hat Process Automation Manager

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Type

• Automation Software

Vendor

• Red Hat

Name

• Ansible Automation Platform

Version

• 2

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://www.redhat.com/

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