CVE-2025-57847

mediumpriority · track · 0OT risk · elevatedEPSS 0.002 · 7 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.18% (7th) EPSS

CVSS 6.4 · medium

Is it mine?

7 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cert_bund · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

A container privilege escalation flaw was found in certain Ansible Automation Platform images. This issue arises from the /etc/passwd file being created with group-writable permissions during the build process. In certain conditions, an attacker who can execute commands within an affected container, even as a non-root user, can leverage their membership in the root group to modify the /etc/passwd file. This vulnerability allows an attacker to add a new user with any arbitrary UID, including UID 0, gaining full root privileges within the container.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

6.4

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.16.4mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.16.4mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · secalert@redhat.com USexploitability 0.5 · impact 5.9

v3.15.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical Impact: totalcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-276US

affected products (7)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

IBM QRadar SIEMall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:ibm:qradar_siem:-
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.4all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.4
Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.7all versionscert_bundDEcpe:/a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:2.7
Red Hat Enterprise Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:-
Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5< 1784035663enisa_euvdEU
Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2.5< 1784051694enisa_euvdEU
redhat ansible automation platform≤ 2.6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:ansible_automation_platform:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2026-1033Verschiedene Red Hat Produkte: Mehrere Schwachstellen ermöglichen Erlangen von AdministratorrechtenDeutsch2026-04-08csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein lokaler Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in mehreren Red Hat-Produkten ausnutzen, um Administratorrechte zu erlangen.
WID-SEC-W-2026-3555Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform (automation-controller): Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2026-09-23csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform ausnutzen, um seine Privilegien zu erhöhen, beliebigen Code auszuführen, Sicherheitsmaßnahmen zu umgehen, Daten zu manipulieren oder offenzulegen und einen Denial-of-Service-Zustand herbeizuführen.

also known as (3)

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sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd cert_bund nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2026-04-08modified 2026-10-13

references (19)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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