# Ansible-automation-platform/aap-gateway: aap-gateway: read-only personal access token (pat) bypasses write restrictions

CVE record · `CVE-2025-14025`

- **Identifiers:** `CVE-2025-14025`
- **State:** Confirmed
- **Severity:** CVSS 8.5 High
- **Critical:** No
- **CNA:** redhat
- **Weakness (CWE):** [CWE-279](https://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/279.html)
- **Tags:** [CWE-279](https://agentprime.io/advisories/tag/cwe-279.md)
- **Technologies:** [Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/red-hat-ansible-automation-platform-2-5-for-rhel-8.md) · [Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/red-hat-ansible-automation-platform-2-5-for-rhel-9.md) · [Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/red-hat-ansible-automation-platform-2-6-for-rhel-9.md) · [Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/red-hat-ansible-automation-platform-2-5.md) · [Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6](https://agentprime.io/advisories/technology/red-hat-ansible-automation-platform-2-6.md)
- **Published:** 8 Jan 2026
- **Updated:** 26 Feb 2026
- **Reviewed by a person:** No

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 8 Jan 2026, 13:44 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

## Affected products, as the CNA wrote them

- Vendor: Red Hat. Product: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 8.
  - unaffected: `0:2.5.20260106-1.el8ap to before *` (rpm)
  - Other versions: affected
  - Package name: `automation-gateway`
  - Collection: `https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/`
- Vendor: Red Hat. Product: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 for RHEL 9.
  - unaffected: `0:2.5.20260106-1.el9ap to before *` (rpm)
  - Other versions: affected
  - Package name: `automation-gateway`
  - Collection: `https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/`
- Vendor: Red Hat. Product: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 for RHEL 9.
  - unaffected: `0:2.6.20260106-1.el9ap to before *` (rpm)
  - Other versions: affected
  - Package name: `automation-gateway`
  - Collection: `https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/`
- Vendor: Red Hat. Product: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5.
  - unaffected: `sha256:2df290b61d7aac08deec2973d0a9b98788f6b619e974af0b3f4b61c759c7e464 to before *` (rpm)
  - Other versions: affected
  - Package name: `ansible-automation-platform-25/gateway-rhel8`
  - Collection: `https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/`
- Vendor: Red Hat. Product: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6.
  - unaffected: `sha256:766c7570afc4e9b163a3256a0d7c699327905c1d24213229acb0b96a9e65b615 to before *` (rpm)
  - Other versions: affected
  - Package name: `ansible-automation-platform-26/gateway-rhel9`
  - Collection: `https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/`

## Not analysed yet

We haven’t published our own analysis of this CVE. If a person reviews it, this page will say what’s affected and what has to be true for it to matter.

## Severity and exploitation

- 8.5 High, CVSS 3.1: `CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H`, from CNA (redhat)

- **CISA KEV:** Not listed.
- **EPSS:** 0.0042, the 36th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

## Timeline

This record came from the full history of the CVE Program, published 8 Jan 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

## Sources

- [CVE List: CVE-2025-14025](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-14025)
- [NVD: CVE-2025-14025](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-14025)

### References from the CNA

- <https://access.redhat.com/articles/7136004>
- <https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:0360> (vendor-advisory, redhat)
- <https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:0361> (vendor-advisory, redhat)
- <https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:0408> (vendor-advisory, redhat)
- <https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:0409> (vendor-advisory, redhat)
- <https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-14025> (vdb-entry, redhat)
- <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2418785> (issue-tracking, redhat)

Facts on this page come from the CVE List as the CNA published them, with CVSS from the sources named above, CISA KEV and FIRST EPSS. Vendors, products and versions are shown as the CNA wrote them. We don’t reproduce the CVE’s description.

## Check whether this affects you

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- With the agentprime MCP server (<https://api.agentprime.io/mcp>), `get_advisory` returns this record and `search_advisories` finds related ones. Setup: <https://agentprime.io/mcp.md>
- As JSON: <https://api.agentprime.io/v1/advisories/CVE-2025-14025>
- Everything that needs attention now: <https://agentprime.io/advisories/critical.md>

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