Issued:
2026-01-28
Updated:
2026-01-28

RHSA-2026:1497 - Important: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 Product Security and Bug Fix Update

Synopsis

Important: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4 Product Security and Bug Fix Update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

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: Django: Algorithmic complexity in XML Deserializer leads to denial of service (CVE-2025-64460)
  • automation-controller: urllib3 Streaming API improperly handles highly compressed data (CVE-2025-66471)
  • automation-controller: AIOHTTP's HTTP Parser auto_decompress feature is vulnerable to zip bomb (CVE-2025-69223)
  • receptor: Excessive resource consumption when printing error string for host certificate validation in crypto/x509 (CVE-2025-61729)

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 included for Automation controller:

  • Restored the usage of system_tracking_logger (AAP-60506)
  • Fixed issue where jobs from other template sometimes appeared on template jobs page (AAP-59615)
  • Fixed the UI to display more than 25 input inventories in constructed inventories detail/edit form (AAP-59568)
  • Reduced number of API calls while scrolling through job output (AAP-58255)
  • automation-controller has been updated to 4.5.30
  • receptor has been updated to 1.6.3

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, refer to Ansible Automation Platform documentation.

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Ansible Inside1.2x86_64
Red Hat Ansible Inside1.2x86_64
Red Hat Ansible Inside1.2s390x
Red Hat Ansible Inside1.2s390x
Red Hat Ansible Inside1.2ppc64le
Red Hat Ansible Inside1.2ppc64le
Red Hat Ansible Inside1.2aarch64
Red Hat Ansible Inside1.2aarch64
Red Hat Ansible Developer1.1x86_64
Red Hat Ansible Developer1.1x86_64
Red Hat Ansible Developer1.1s390x
Red Hat Ansible Developer1.1s390x
Red Hat Ansible Developer1.1ppc64le
Red Hat Ansible Developer1.1ppc64le
Red Hat Ansible Developer1.1aarch64
Red Hat Ansible Developer1.1aarch64
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform2.4x86_64
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform2.4x86_64
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform2.4s390x
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform2.4s390x
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform2.4ppc64le
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform2.4ppc64le
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform2.4aarch64
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform2.4aarch64

Updated Packages

  • automation-controller-ui-4.5.30-1.el9ap.noarch.rpm
  • receptor-debuginfo-1.6.3-1.el8ap.s390x.rpm
  • automation-controller-venv-tower-4.5.30-1.el8ap.aarch64.rpm
  • automation-controller-venv-tower-4.5.30-1.el8ap.x86_64.rpm
  • automation-controller-server-4.5.30-1.el9ap.noarch.rpm
  • automation-controller-4.5.30-1.el8ap.src.rpm
  • automation-controller-4.5.30-1.el8ap.x86_64.rpm
  • automation-controller-4.5.30-1.el9ap.ppc64le.rpm
  • automation-controller-venv-tower-4.5.30-1.el9ap.x86_64.rpm
  • receptor-1.6.3-1.el8ap.src.rpm
  • receptor-debuginfo-1.6.3-1.el8ap.x86_64.rpm
  • receptor-debuginfo-1.6.3-1.el9ap.aarch64.rpm
  • automation-controller-ui-4.5.30-1.el8ap.noarch.rpm
  • receptor-debuginfo-1.6.3-1.el9ap.ppc64le.rpm
  • receptor-debuginfo-1.6.3-1.el9ap.s390x.rpm
  • receptor-1.6.3-1.el9ap.aarch64.rpm
  • receptor-1.6.3-1.el8ap.ppc64le.rpm
  • receptor-debuginfo-1.6.3-1.el9ap.x86_64.rpm
  • receptor-debugsource-1.6.3-1.el8ap.s390x.rpm
  • receptor-debugsource-1.6.3-1.el8ap.x86_64.rpm
  • receptor-debugsource-1.6.3-1.el8ap.ppc64le.rpm
  • automation-controller-venv-tower-4.5.30-1.el8ap.s390x.rpm
  • receptor-debugsource-1.6.3-1.el9ap.ppc64le.rpm
  • receptorctl-1.6.3-1.el8ap.noarch.rpm
  • automation-controller-4.5.30-1.el9ap.s390x.rpm
  • automation-controller-cli-4.5.30-1.el9ap.noarch.rpm
  • receptorctl-1.6.3-1.el9ap.noarch.rpm
  • automation-controller-4.5.30-1.el8ap.aarch64.rpm
  • receptor-debuginfo-1.6.3-1.el8ap.aarch64.rpm
  • automation-controller-cli-4.5.30-1.el8ap.noarch.rpm
  • receptor-debugsource-1.6.3-1.el9ap.s390x.rpm
  • receptor-debuginfo-1.6.3-1.el8ap.ppc64le.rpm
  • automation-controller-4.5.30-1.el9ap.src.rpm
  • receptor-1.6.3-1.el8ap.s390x.rpm
  • automation-controller-4.5.30-1.el9ap.x86_64.rpm
  • receptor-1.6.3-1.el8ap.aarch64.rpm
  • receptor-1.6.3-1.el9ap.ppc64le.rpm
  • receptor-1.6.3-1.el9ap.s390x.rpm
  • receptor-debugsource-1.6.3-1.el9ap.aarch64.rpm
  • automation-controller-4.5.30-1.el9ap.aarch64.rpm
  • receptor-debugsource-1.6.3-1.el8ap.aarch64.rpm
  • automation-controller-server-4.5.30-1.el8ap.noarch.rpm
  • automation-controller-4.5.30-1.el8ap.s390x.rpm
  • automation-controller-venv-tower-4.5.30-1.el9ap.ppc64le.rpm
  • receptor-debugsource-1.6.3-1.el9ap.x86_64.rpm
  • receptor-1.6.3-1.el9ap.src.rpm
  • automation-controller-venv-tower-4.5.30-1.el9ap.aarch64.rpm
  • automation-controller-4.5.30-1.el8ap.ppc64le.rpm
  • automation-controller-venv-tower-4.5.30-1.el9ap.s390x.rpm
  • receptor-1.6.3-1.el8ap.x86_64.rpm
  • automation-controller-venv-tower-4.5.30-1.el8ap.ppc64le.rpm
  • receptor-1.6.3-1.el9ap.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information