CVE-2025-9908 Event-driven-ansible: sensitive internal headers disclosure in aap eda event streams
Authenticated users can exfiltrate sensitive internal headers and URLs, enabling request spoofing and privilege escalation in Ansible Event-Driven Ansible.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- An administrator
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2025-9908?
CVE-2025-9908 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5, published on 27 Feb 2026. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
A flaw was found in the Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, Event-Driven Ansible (EDA) Event Streams. This vulnerability allows an authenticated user to gain access to sensitive internal infrastructure headers (such as X-Trusted-Proxy and X-Envoy-*) and event stream URLs via crafted requests and job templates. By exfiltrating these headers, an attacker could spoof trusted requests, escalate privileges, or perform malicious event injection.
Weakness: CWE-200
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-9908?
It affects 3 products.
Products include Redhat Ansible Automation Platform, Redhat Ansible Developer, Redhat Ansible Inside.
How do I fix CVE-2025-9908?
Apply the vendor's patch.
Is CVE-2025-9908 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-9908 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5
- CVE-2021-4112 Privilege escalation in ansible-tower
- CVE-2023-4237 Platform: ec2_key module prints out the private key directly to the standard output
- CVE-2021-3583 Improper Input Validation and Command Injection in Ansible
- CVE-2025-9907 Event-driven-ansible: event stream test mode exposes sensitive headers in aap eda
- CVE-2025-9909 Aap-gateway: improper path validation in gateway allows credential exfiltration
Sources
Also known as GHSA-c2g3-cfch-p5h4.