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-2025-1801https://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