CVE-2025-1801 Aap-gateway: aap-gateway privilege escalation
A race condition in Ansible aap-gateway allows less privileged users to steal JWTs from higher privileged users, leading to privilege escalation and data exposure.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2025-1801?
CVE-2025-1801 is a high-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8, published on 3 Mar 2025. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
A flaw was found in the Ansible aap-gateway. Concurrent requests handled by the gateway grpc service can result in concurrency issues due to race condition requests against the proxy. This issue potentially allows a less privileged user to obtain the JWT of a greater privileged user, enabling the server to be jeopardized. A user session or confidential data might be vulnerable.
Weakness: CWE-362
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-1801?
Linux distribution packages (6)
automation-gateway Red Hat:ansible_automation_platform:2.5::el8 | All versions | 0:2.5.20250305-1.el8ap |
automation-gateway-config Red Hat:ansible_automation_platform:2.5::el8 | All versions | 0:2.5.20250305-1.el8ap |
automation-gateway-server Red Hat:ansible_automation_platform:2.5::el8 | All versions | 0:2.5.20250305-1.el8ap |
automation-gateway Red Hat:ansible_automation_platform:2.5::el9 | All versions | 0:2.5.20250305-1.el9ap |
automation-gateway-config Red Hat:ansible_automation_platform:2.5::el9 | All versions | 0:2.5.20250305-1.el9ap |
automation-gateway-server Red Hat:ansible_automation_platform:2.5::el9 | All versions | 0:2.5.20250305-1.el9ap |
How do I fix CVE-2025-1801?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Is CVE-2025-1801 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-1801 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Sources
Also known as GHSA-fj43-p45h-jjgv, RHSA-2025:1954.