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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis:           Important: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 Product Security and Bug Fix Update
Advisory ID:        RHSA-2025:3123-03
Product:            Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Advisory URL:       https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:3123
Issue date:         2025-03-25
Revision:           03
CVE Names:          CVE-2025-27516
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Summary: 

An update is now available for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.




Description:

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform provides an enterprise framework for building, deploying and managing IT automation at scale. IT Managers can provide top-down guidelines on how automation is applied to individual teams, while automation developers retain the freedom to write tasks that leverage existing knowledge without the overhead. Ansible Automation Platform makes it possible for users across an organization to share, vet, and manage automation content by means of a simple, powerful, and agentless language.

Security Fix(es):
 
* automation-controller: Jinja sandbox breakout through attr filter selecting format method (CVE-2025-27516)

* python3-jinja2/python39-jinja2: Jinja sandbox breakout through attr filter selecting format method (CVE-2025-27516)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Updates and fixes for automation controller:
* Fixed an issue where Insights projects were failing on OCP AAP, due to incorrectly specifying the 'extra vars' path (AAP-41875)
* Fixed an issue where the system auditor could download the execution node install bundle (AAP-39799)
* Fixed the behavior of the project's 'requirements.yml' to no longer revert to a prior state in a cluster (AAP-39228)
* automation-controller has been updated to 4.5.20

Updates and fixes for automation hub:
* Added a migration file to set the default value of retain_repo_versions to 1 for validated repositories (AAP-42004)
* automation-hub/python3-galaxy-ng/python39-galaxy-ng has been updated to 4.9.3
* python3-pulpcore/python39-pulpcore has been updated to 3.28.37

Additional changes:
* python3-jinja2/python39-jinja2 has been updated to 3.1.6


Solution:



CVEs:

CVE-2025-27516

References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2350190