CVE-2025-14025: Ansible-automation-platform/aap-gateway: aap-gateway: read-only personal access token (pat) bypasses write restrictions
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 34/100)
- The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.42% (FIRST EPSS).
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.
- Fixed version: automation-gateway-server (Red Hat:ansible_automation_platform:2.5::el8) 0:2.5.20260106-1.el8ap; automation-gateway-server (Red Hat:ansible_automation_platform:2.5::el9) 0:2.5.20260106-1.el9ap; automation-gateway-server (Red Hat:ansible_automation_platform:2.6::el9) 0:2.6.20260106-1.el9ap.
Low priority for now. Upgrade to automation-gateway-server (Red Hat:ansible_automation_platform:2.5::el8) 0:2.5.20260106-1.el8ap; automation-gateway-server (Red Hat:ansible_automation_platform:2.5::el9) 0:2.5.20260106-1.el9ap; automation-gateway-server (Red Hat:ansible_automation_platform:2.6::el9) 0:2.6.20260106-1.el9ap or later.
Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it
Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS
A flaw was found in Ansible Automation Platform (AAP). Read-only scoped OAuth2 API Tokens in AAP, are enforced at the Gateway level for Gateway-specific operations. However, this vulnerability allows read-only tokens to perform write operations on backend services (e.g., Controller, Hub, EDA). If this flaw were exploited, an attacker‘s capabilities would only be limited by role based access controls (RBAC).
- Published
- Jan 8, 2026
- Updated
- Jun 17, 2026
- EPSS
- 0.4% · 37th percentile
- CWE
- CWE-279
Report tools
Action score
34
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 34 / 40 · 8.5 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 0.4%
CISA SSVC decision
- Exploitation
- none
- Automatable
- no
- Technical impact
- total
Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.
CNA vs NVD score
- NVD
- —
- CNA · redhat
- 8.5
- NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.
The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.
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- Not in KEV: no record of exploitation in the wild
- No public exploit code on record
- A fix has been released
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What does it mean in your environment?
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Versions reported by the vendor
Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (redhat). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.
Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5
- sha256:2df290b61d7aac08deec2973d0a9b98788f6b619e974af0b3f4b61c759c7e464 and laternot affected · rpm
Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8
- 0:2.5.20260106-1.el8ap and laternot affected · rpm
Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9
- 0:2.5.20260106-1.el9ap and laternot affected · rpm
Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6
- sha256:766c7570afc4e9b163a3256a0d7c699327905c1d24213229acb0b96a9e65b615 and laternot affected · rpm
Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9
- 0:2.6.20260106-1.el9ap and laternot affected · rpm
Package-level exposure
OSV and GitHub Advisory data: ecosystem, package and range. SBOM matching uses this table.
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected range | Fix |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat:ansible_automation_platform:2.5::el8 | automation-gateway-server | before 0:2.5.20260106-1.el8ap | 0:2.5.20260106-1.el8ap |
| Red Hat:ansible_automation_platform:2.5::el9 | automation-gateway-server | before 0:2.5.20260106-1.el9ap | 0:2.5.20260106-1.el9ap |
| Red Hat:ansible_automation_platform:2.6::el9 | automation-gateway-server | before 0:2.6.20260106-1.el9ap | 0:2.6.20260106-1.el9ap |
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Published before and after this one in the same product
- ← EarlierCVE-2025-49520Jun 30, 2025 · Event-driven-ansible: authenticated argument injection in git url in eda project creation35Monitor
- ← EarlierCVE-2025-5988Aug 4, 2025 · Aap-gateway: csrf origin checking is disabled21Monitor
- Later →CVE-2026-6266May 4, 2026 · Aap-controller: aap-gateway: account hijacking and unauthorized access via unverified email linking33Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.
| Product / package | Fixed version | Source |
|---|---|---|
| red hat:automation-gateway-server | 0:2.6.20260106-1.el9ap · Red Hat:ansible_automation_platform:2.6::el9 | Package registry (OSV) |
Exploit status
No known public exploit
No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.
Research context
For pentesters and researchers: attack profile, score disagreement, timeline, patch commits, credits, variant and chain candidates, bug bounty scope. All derived from existing data; no exploit code.
Timeline
From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.
No dated events beyond publication.
Not on record for this CVE: EPSS history · patch commit or PR link · researcher credit · variant or chain candidate · public bounty program.
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
- A low-privileged account is enough.
- No user action is required.
- Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- high · data can be read
- Integrity
- high · data or configuration can be modified
- Availability
- high · the service can be disrupted
Impact can extend beyond the vulnerable component (scope changes).
- Attack vector
- Network
- Attack complexity
- High
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality impact
- High
- Integrity impact
- High
- Availability impact
- High
Weakness class (CWE)
CWE-279 · Incorrect Execution-Assigned PermissionsCVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
nvd-secondary
Attack context
MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.
Attack patterns (CAPEC)
ATT&CK techniques
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Change log (1)
- Fix✗ → ✓
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References
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Vendor advisories and official records. Exploit/PoC links are deliberately left out.