CVE record · CVE-2025-57847

Ansible-automation-platform: privilege escalation via excessive group writable /etc/passwd permissions

CVSS 6.4 MediumEPSS 0.0019 · 8th percentile

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: redhat) at 8 Apr 2026, 13:55 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	Product	Versions
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.16 Package name: ansible-automation-platform/ee-minimal-rhel8 https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/	unaffected 1789001438 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.16 Package name: ansible-automation-platform/ee-minimal-rhel9 https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/	unaffected 1789023765 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.18 Package name: ansible-automation-platform/ee-minimal-rhel8 https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/	unaffected 1789023329 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.18 Package name: ansible-automation-platform/ee-minimal-rhel9 https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/	unaffected 1789001715 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-25/ee-minimal-rhel8 https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/	unaffected 1784035663 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-25/de-minimal-rhel8 https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/	unaffected 1789634812 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-25/ee-minimal-rhel9 https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/	unaffected 1784051694 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-25/de-minimal-rhel9 https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/	unaffected 1789654540 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-26/de-minimal-rhel9 https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/	unaffected 1789658734 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-26/de-supported-rhel9 https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/	unaffected 1789661423 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-26/ee-minimal-rhel9 https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/	unaffected 1789654312 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-27/ee-minimal-rhel9 https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/	unaffected 1788901236 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-27/de-minimal-rhel9 https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/	unaffected 1789582543 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-27/de-supported-rhel9 https://catalog.redhat.com/software/containers/	unaffected 1789584820 to before * rpm Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-24/controller-rhel8 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-24/de-minimal-rhel8 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-24/de-minimal-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-24/ee-29-rhel8 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-24/ee-minimal-rhel8 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-24/ee-minimal-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-25/ansible-dev-tools-rhel8 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-25/controller-rhel8-operator https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-26/ee-supported-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform/ee-29-rhel8 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform/ee-minimal-rhel8 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform/ee-minimal-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-tech-preview/ansible-devspaces-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Ansible Core 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-tech-preview/ee-minimal-rhel8 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: unaffected
Red Hat	Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Ansible Core 2 Package name: ansible-automation-platform-tech-preview/ee-minimal-rhel9 https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/	No versions given Other versions: affected

Identifiers: CVE-2025-57847
CNA: redhat
Weakness (CWE): CWE-276
Tags: Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.16
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.18
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.6
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform Ansible Core 2
Broken access control
Published: 8 Apr 2026
Updated: 13 Oct 2026

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
6.4	Medium	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CNA (redhat)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0019, the 8th 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 Apr 2026. New records show when each source confirmed them.

Sources

References from the CNA

access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:42141 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:42144 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:66482 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:66485 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:66486 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:66487 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:67279 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71177 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71179 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71192 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2026:71210 vendor-advisoryredhat
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-57847 vdb-entryredhat
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2391092 issue-trackingredhat

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