# 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.

- **Severity:** Medium 6.7 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** An administrator
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** Yes
- **Published:** 27 Feb 2026
- **Updated:** 3 Mar 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-c2g3-cfch-p5h4

## 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 (Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-9908?

It affects 3 products.


Products: 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](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-4112/): Privilege escalation in ansible-tower (high 8.8)
- [CVE-2023-4237](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2023-4237/): Platform: ec2_key module prints out the private key directly to the standard output (high 7.3)
- [CVE-2021-3583](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-3583/): Improper Input Validation and Command Injection in Ansible (high 7.1)
- [CVE-2025-9907](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-9907/): Event-driven-ansible: event stream test mode exposes sensitive headers in aap eda (medium 6.7)
- [CVE-2025-9909](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-9909/): Aap-gateway: improper path validation in gateway allows credential exfiltration (medium 6.7)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-9908 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: 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.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-9908 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-2025-9908/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-9908/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-9908
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-9908
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-9908

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-9908/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.