Privilege escalation via cross-request JWT swapping
Published Mar 3, 2025 · Updated Nov 20, 2025
Race condition in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 allows remote attackers to obtain a more privileged user's JWT. The gateway gRPC service reuses an ExternalAuth object across concurrent proxy requests without isolating request state, allowing one request to receive another request's token. Requests must overlap; even an unauthenticated request can inherit a higher-privileged session and access data available to that user.
Summary
What happened
Race condition in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5 allows remote attackers to obtain a more privileged user's JWT. The gateway gRPC service reuses an ExternalAuth object across concurrent proxy requests without isolating request state, allowing one request to receive another request's token. Requests must overlap; even an unauthenticated request can inherit a higher-privileged session and access data available to that user.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2025-1801
- Published
- Mar 3, 2025
- Updated
- Nov 20, 2025
- Vendor
- 389 Directory Server
- Product
- Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform
- Classifications
- CWE-362, T1528
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- unauthenticated
Timeline
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- Mar 3, 2025CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Nov 20, 2025Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=2.5.0 <2.5.20250305-1
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