# CVE-2025-14025: Ansible-automation-platform/aap-gateway: aap-gateway: read-only personal access token (pat) bypasses write restrictions

> Read-only API tokens in Ansible Automation Platform can bypass restrictions to perform write operations on backend services, limited only by RBAC.

- **Severity:** High 8.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Over the internet
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 8 Jan 2026
- **Updated:** 26 Feb 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-3j6w-p6vm-g8hg, RHSA-2026:0360, RHSA-2026:0361

## What is CVE-2025-14025?

CVE-2025-14025 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5, published on 8 Jan 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

A flaw was found in Ansible Automation Platform (AAP). Read-only scoped OAuth2 API Tokens in AAP, are enforced at the Gateway level for Gateway-specific operations. However, this vulnerability allows read-only tokens to perform write operations on backend services (e.g., Controller, Hub, EDA). If this flaw were exploited, an attacker‘s capabilities would only be limited by role based access controls (RBAC).

Weakness: CWE-279 (Incorrect Execution-Assigned Permissions)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-14025?


| Package | Ecosystem | Affected | Fixed in |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| `automation-gateway-server` | Red Hat:ansible_automation_platform:2.5::el8 | All versions | 0:2.5.20260106-1.el8ap |
| `automation-gateway-server` | Red Hat:ansible_automation_platform:2.5::el9 | All versions | 0:2.5.20260106-1.el9ap |
| `automation-gateway-server` | Red Hat:ansible_automation_platform:2.6::el9 | All versions | 0:2.6.20260106-1.el9ap |

## How do I fix CVE-2025-14025?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2025-14025 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-14025 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-14025 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-14025 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5, published on 8 Jan 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-14025 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-14025/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-14025/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-14025
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-14025
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-14025

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-14025/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.