Aap: sensitive cookie(s) set without security flags

published 2025-07-11 15 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2025-21136

cvss: 3.1; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.1%; EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 1%
public exploits: 0; none known

A flaw was found in Ansible. Sensitive cookies without security flags over non-encrypted channels can lead to Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) and Cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks allowing attackers to read transmitted data.

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2025-53861 updated 2026-06-28 cvss 3.1

aap: Sensitive Cookie(s) Set Without Security Flags

Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2 ansible-automation-platform-25/gateway-rhel8-operator
not affected: component not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 15 mo ago (2025-07-11)

Exploit prediction

0.11% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 1% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Affected products

Red Hat Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2

Classification

Weakness

CWE-319 Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

References

access.redhat.com /security/cve/CVE-2025-53861
vdb-entry, vendor-advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com /show_bug.cgi?id=2379360
issue-tracking

Sources

CVE List CVE-2025-53861
NVD CVE-2025-53861

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Summary