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CVE-2025-1801: Aap-gateway: aap-gateway privilege escalation

Description

A flaw was found in the Ansible aap-gateway. Concurrent requests handled by the gateway grpc service can result in concurrency issues due to race condition requests against the proxy. This issue potentially allows a less privileged user to obtain the JWT of a greater privileged user, enabling the server to be jeopardized. A user session or confidential data might be vulnerable.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2025-1801

Problem Types

Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

Affected Products

Vendor: Red Hat, Red Hat

Product: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.03% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 5.62% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-04-01 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: none

SSVC Technical Impact: partial

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-1801
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:1954
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-1801
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2349081

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