Cyber Resilience

CVE-2025-53862

Redhat Ansible Automation Platform 2.0

Published
11 July 2025
Modified
17 June 2026
Patch / advisory
CVSS Score v3.1 3.5
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Raw vectorCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0018 7th percentile
Risk Priority 15 floored blend · peak EPSS

Summary

CVE-2025-53862 is a low-severity Exposure of Sensitive System Information to an Unauthorized Control Sphere (CWE-497) vulnerability in Redhat Ansible Automation Platform. Its CVSS base score is 3.5 (Low).

Operationally, ranked at the 7th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

The strongest mitigations our analysis identified map to AC-3 (Access Enforcement) and IA-2 (Identification and Authentication (Organizational Users)) — see the control section below for these in your framework.

OWASP Top 10 for Web (2025)

EU & UK References

Vulnerability Data

A flaw was found in Ansible. Three API endpoints are accessible and return verbose, unauthenticated responses. This flaw allows a malicious user to access data that may contain important information.

CWE(s)

Related Threats

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Affected Assets

redhat
ansible automation platform
2.0

Mitigating Controls

Control response

Prevent
Stop it (NIST 800-53)
  • AC-3 Access Enforcement
  • IA-2 Identification and Authentication (Organizational Users)
  • AC-14 Permitted Actions Without Identification or Authentication
Detect
Catch it (NIST detect / respond)

Harden
Shrink the surface (DISA STIG)
  • 5 hardening rules · 4 OS baselines
Validate
Prove the fix (OWASP ASVS)
  • V14.1.2

Mitigating Controls (NIST 800-53 r5) AI

prevent

Directly enforces authorization decisions on the three API endpoints so that unauthenticated requests cannot retrieve sensitive data.

prevent

Requires identification and authentication of users before any access to the API endpoints is granted, eliminating the unauthenticated exposure path.

prevent

Explicitly limits the set of actions permitted without identification or authentication, preventing the three verbose endpoints from being reachable anonymously.

Mitigating Controls (NIST CSF 2.0) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→CSF cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

PR.AA-05 mostly match
prevents

Enforcing least-privilege access permissions directly prevents unauthorized actors from reaching sensitive system information.

PR.IR-01 mostly match
prevents

Protecting environments from unauthorized logical access stops exposure of internal system details to outsiders.

PR.PS-06 partial match
prevents

Secure-development practices reduce the chance of code paths that leak sensitive system information.

Mitigating Controls (ISO/IEC 27001:2022 Annex A) AI

Derived directly from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry via our AI-authored CWE→ISO cross-walk (authority under review) — links open the control.

none

Keeping internal maps, directories, and signage from public view prevents disclosure of system or facility details that could aid reconnaissance or targeted attacks.

References