# CVE-2025-9909: Aap-gateway: improper path validation in gateway allows credential exfiltration

> A malicious administrator can create misleading routes to intercept and exfiltrate user credentials in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform.

- **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:** 27 Feb 2026
- **Also known as:** GHSA-2fx4-vwf2-pw99

## What is CVE-2025-9909?

CVE-2025-9909 is a medium-severity path traversal 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 Gateway route creation component. This vulnerability allows credential theft via the creation of misleading routes using a double-slash (//) prefix in the gateway_path. A malicious or socially engineered administrator can configure a honey-pot route to intercept and exfiltrate user credentials, potentially maintaining persistent access or creating a backdoor even after their permissions are revoked.

Weakness: CWE-647 (Use of Non-Canonical URL Paths for Authorization Decisions)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-9909?

It affects 3 products.


Products: Redhat Ansible Automation Platform, Redhat Ansible Developer, Redhat Ansible Inside.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-9909?

Apply the vendor's patch.

## Is CVE-2025-9909 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-9909 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-2025-9908](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-9908/): Event-driven-ansible: sensitive internal headers disclosure in aap eda event streams (medium 6.7)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-9909 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-9909 is a medium-severity path traversal 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-2025-9909 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-2025-9909/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-9909/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-9909
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-9909
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-9909

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-9909/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.