- Issued:
- 2026-01-28
- Updated:
- 2026-01-28
RHSA-2026:1506 - Important: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 Product Security and Bug Fix Update
Synopsis
Important: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 Product Security and Bug Fix Update
Type/Severity
Security Advisory Important
Topic
An update is now available for Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5
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: 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)
- automation-controller: Django: algorithmic complexity in XML Deserializer leads to denial of service (CVE-2025-64460)
- automation-controller: AIOHTTP HTTP Request/Response Smuggling (CVE-2025-53643)
- python3.11-django: Django: Algorithmic complexity in XML Deserializer leads to denial of service (CVE-2025-64460)
- python3.11-urllib3: urllib3 Streaming API improperly handles highly compressed data (CVE-2025-66471)
- receptor: Excessive resource consumption when printing error string for host certificate validation in crypto/x509 (CVE-2025-61729)
Updates and fixes included:
- ansible-core has been updated to 2.16.15
- ansible-dev-tools has been updated to 26.1.0
- ansible-lint has been updated to 26.1.0
- ansible-navigator has been updated to 26.1.1
- automation-controller has been updated to 4.6.25
- automation-gateway has been updated to 2.5.20260121
- automation-hub has been updated to 4.10.11
- python3.11-botocore has been updated to 1.34.162
- python3.11-django has been updated to 4.2.27
- python3.11-galaxy-importer has been updated to 0.4.37
- python3.11-galaxy-ng has been updated to 4.10.11
- python3.11-requests has been updated to 2.31.0
- python3.11-urllib3 has been updated to 2.6.3
- receptor has been updated to 1.6.3
Solution
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
Affected Products
| Product | Version | Arch |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Ansible Inside | 1.3 | x86_64 |
| Red Hat Ansible Inside | 1.3 | x86_64 |
| Red Hat Ansible Inside | 1.3 | s390x |
| Red Hat Ansible Inside | 1.3 | s390x |
| Red Hat Ansible Inside | 1.3 | ppc64le |
| Red Hat Ansible Inside | 1.3 | ppc64le |
| Red Hat Ansible Inside | 1.3 | aarch64 |
| Red Hat Ansible Inside | 1.3 | aarch64 |
| Red Hat Ansible Developer | 1.2 | x86_64 |
| Red Hat Ansible Developer | 1.2 | x86_64 |
| Red Hat Ansible Developer | 1.2 | s390x |
| Red Hat Ansible Developer | 1.2 | s390x |
| Red Hat Ansible Developer | 1.2 | ppc64le |
| Red Hat Ansible Developer | 1.2 | ppc64le |
| Red Hat Ansible Developer | 1.2 | aarch64 |
| Red Hat Ansible Developer | 1.2 | aarch64 |
| Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform | 2.5 | x86_64 |
| Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform | 2.5 | x86_64 |
| Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform | 2.5 | s390x |
| Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform | 2.5 | s390x |
| Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform | 2.5 | ppc64le |
| Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform | 2.5 | ppc64le |
| Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform | 2.5 | aarch64 |
| Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform | 2.5 | aarch64 |
Updated Packages
- automation-controller-venv-tower-4.6.25-1.el9ap.aarch64.rpm
- automation-controller-venv-tower-4.6.25-1.el9ap.ppc64le.rpm
- automation-controller-4.6.25-1.el8ap.x86_64.rpm
- python3.11-botocore-1.34.162-1.el9ap.src.rpm
- receptor-debugsource-1.6.3-1.el8ap.aarch64.rpm
- ansible-dev-tools+server-26.1.0-1.el9ap.noarch.rpm
- python3.11-botocore-1.34.162-1.el8ap.src.rpm
- receptor-1.6.3-1.el8ap.aarch64.rpm
- receptor-1.6.3-1.el8ap.s390x.rpm
- receptor-debuginfo-1.6.3-1.el8ap.ppc64le.rpm
- receptor-debugsource-1.6.3-1.el9ap.aarch64.rpm
- receptor-debugsource-1.6.3-1.el8ap.s390x.rpm
- automation-controller-4.6.25-1.el8ap.src.rpm
- python3.11-urllib3-2.6.3-1.el9ap.noarch.rpm
- automation-gateway-2.5.20260121-1.el9ap.src.rpm
- ansible-core-2.16.15-1.el9ap.src.rpm
- automation-controller-ui-4.6.25-1.el8ap.noarch.rpm
- automation-controller-venv-tower-4.6.25-1.el9ap.s390x.rpm
- ansible-navigator-26.1.1-1.el8ap.noarch.rpm
- ansible-dev-tools-26.1.0-1.el8ap.noarch.rpm
- automation-gateway-2.5.20260121-1.el8ap.noarch.rpm
- automation-controller-4.6.25-1.el8ap.s390x.rpm
- ansible-test-2.16.15-1.el9ap.noarch.rpm
- automation-controller-venv-tower-4.6.25-1.el8ap.aarch64.rpm
- python3.11-galaxy-importer-0.4.37-2.el8ap.noarch.rpm
- automation-gateway-server-2.5.20260121-1.el9ap.noarch.rpm
- python3.11-urllib3-2.6.3-1.el8ap.src.rpm
- automation-controller-cli-4.6.25-1.el9ap.noarch.rpm
- receptor-1.6.3-1.el9ap.aarch64.rpm
- receptor-debugsource-1.6.3-1.el9ap.x86_64.rpm
- automation-hub-4.10.11-1.el9ap.noarch.rpm
- receptor-debuginfo-1.6.3-1.el8ap.x86_64.rpm
- ansible-core-2.16.15-1.el9ap.noarch.rpm
- automation-gateway-server-2.5.20260121-1.el8ap.noarch.rpm
- python3.11-django-4.2.27-1.el8ap.src.rpm
- ansible-dev-tools-26.1.0-1.el9ap.noarch.rpm
- python3.11-urllib3-2.6.3-1.el8ap.noarch.rpm
- automation-controller-4.6.25-1.el8ap.aarch64.rpm
- python3.11-urllib3-2.6.3-1.el9ap.src.rpm
- ansible-dev-tools-26.1.0-1.el9ap.src.rpm
- automation-controller-venv-tower-4.6.25-1.el8ap.ppc64le.rpm
- receptor-1.6.3-1.el8ap.src.rpm
- receptor-debuginfo-1.6.3-1.el8ap.s390x.rpm
- receptor-debuginfo-1.6.3-1.el9ap.ppc64le.rpm
- python3.11-botocore-1.34.162-1.el8ap.noarch.rpm
- receptor-debuginfo-1.6.3-1.el9ap.x86_64.rpm
- ansible-lint-26.1.0-1.el9ap.noarch.rpm
- receptorctl-1.6.3-1.el9ap.noarch.rpm
- automation-controller-venv-tower-4.6.25-1.el8ap.s390x.rpm
- ansible-test-2.16.15-1.el8ap.noarch.rpm
- python3.11-galaxy-ng-4.10.11-2.el9ap.noarch.rpm
- ansible-dev-tools-26.1.0-1.el8ap.src.rpm
- ansible-navigator-26.1.1-1.el9ap.noarch.rpm
- automation-controller-4.6.25-1.el9ap.x86_64.rpm
- automation-hub-4.10.11-1.el8ap.src.rpm
- python3.11-django-4.2.27-1.el8ap.noarch.rpm
- automation-controller-4.6.25-1.el9ap.ppc64le.rpm
- automation-hub-4.10.11-1.el9ap.src.rpm
- python3.11-galaxy-ng-4.10.11-2.el8ap.src.rpm
- ansible-lint-26.1.0-1.el9ap.src.rpm
- python3.11-requests-2.31.0-3.el8ap.noarch.rpm
- python3.11-galaxy-ng-4.10.11-2.el8ap.noarch.rpm
- python3.11-django-4.2.27-1.el9ap.src.rpm
- receptor-1.6.3-1.el9ap.s390x.rpm
- automation-gateway-2.5.20260121-1.el8ap.src.rpm
- python3.11-django-4.2.27-1.el9ap.noarch.rpm
- python3.11-requests-2.31.0-3.el9ap.noarch.rpm
- python3.11-galaxy-importer-0.4.37-2.el9ap.src.rpm
- receptor-1.6.3-1.el8ap.x86_64.rpm
- receptor-1.6.3-1.el9ap.ppc64le.rpm
- receptor-debugsource-1.6.3-1.el9ap.ppc64le.rpm
- ansible-navigator-26.1.1-1.el9ap.src.rpm
- automation-controller-cli-4.6.25-1.el8ap.noarch.rpm
- receptor-1.6.3-1.el9ap.x86_64.rpm
- automation-controller-4.6.25-1.el9ap.s390x.rpm
- receptor-debugsource-1.6.3-1.el8ap.x86_64.rpm
- python3.11-galaxy-importer-0.4.37-2.el9ap.noarch.rpm
- receptor-1.6.3-1.el9ap.src.rpm
- receptor-debugsource-1.6.3-1.el9ap.s390x.rpm
- automation-controller-4.6.25-1.el8ap.ppc64le.rpm
- python3.11-botocore-1.34.162-1.el9ap.noarch.rpm
- ansible-dev-tools+server-26.1.0-1.el8ap.noarch.rpm
- python3.11-requests-2.31.0-3.el8ap.src.rpm
- automation-controller-venv-tower-4.6.25-1.el8ap.x86_64.rpm
- python3.11-requests-2.31.0-3.el9ap.src.rpm
- ansible-core-2.16.15-1.el8ap.src.rpm
- automation-gateway-config-2.5.20260121-1.el9ap.noarch.rpm
- python3.11-galaxy-importer-0.4.37-2.el8ap.src.rpm
- automation-controller-4.6.25-1.el9ap.aarch64.rpm
- receptor-debuginfo-1.6.3-1.el9ap.aarch64.rpm
- automation-controller-venv-tower-4.6.25-1.el9ap.x86_64.rpm
- automation-gateway-2.5.20260121-1.el9ap.noarch.rpm
- automation-gateway-config-2.5.20260121-1.el8ap.noarch.rpm
- automation-controller-server-4.6.25-1.el9ap.noarch.rpm
- python3.11-galaxy-ng-4.10.11-2.el9ap.src.rpm
- receptor-debuginfo-1.6.3-1.el9ap.s390x.rpm
- automation-controller-server-4.6.25-1.el8ap.noarch.rpm
- receptorctl-1.6.3-1.el8ap.noarch.rpm
- receptor-debuginfo-1.6.3-1.el8ap.aarch64.rpm
- ansible-navigator-26.1.1-1.el8ap.src.rpm
- automation-controller-4.6.25-1.el9ap.src.rpm
- automation-hub-4.10.11-1.el8ap.noarch.rpm
- ansible-lint-26.1.0-1.el8ap.noarch.rpm
- ansible-lint-26.1.0-1.el8ap.src.rpm
- ansible-core-2.16.15-1.el8ap.noarch.rpm
- receptor-debugsource-1.6.3-1.el8ap.ppc64le.rpm
- receptor-1.6.3-1.el8ap.ppc64le.rpm
- automation-controller-ui-4.6.25-1.el9ap.noarch.rpm
Fixes
- This content is not included.BZ - 2380000
- This content is not included.BZ - 2418366
- This content is not included.BZ - 2418462
- This content is not included.BZ - 2419467
- This content is not included.BZ - 2427456
CVEs
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
- https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_ansible_automation_platform/2.5/html/release_notes/patch_releases
- https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_ansible_automation_platform/2.5#Upgrading
Additional information
- The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
- Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.