CVE-2025-57847 Ansible-automation-platform: privilege escalation via excessive group writable /etc/passwd permissions

What is CVE-2025-57847?

CVE-2025-57847 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2, published on 8 Apr 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

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.

Weakness: CWE-276

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-57847?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Redhat Ansible Automation Platform.

How do I fix CVE-2025-57847?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-57847 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2025-57847 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-57847 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2

• CVE-2021-4112 Privilege escalation in ansible-tower High 8.8
• CVE-2023-4237 Platform: ec2_key module prints out the private key directly to the standard output High 7.3
• CVE-2021-3583 Improper Input Validation and Command Injection in Ansible High 7.1
• CVE-2025-9907 Event-driven-ansible: event stream test mode exposes sensitive headers in aap eda Medium 6.7
• CVE-2025-9908 Event-driven-ansible: sensitive internal headers disclosure in aap eda event streams Medium 6.7

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-49g2-wpmf-55pv.