Aap: sensitive cookie(s) set without security flags
Priority LOW 14CWE-319Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Adjacent network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- High
- Impact type
- Information disclosure
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- Low · None · None
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-319.
Summary
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.
Why it matters now
Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00113 1st percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix No fix listed No fixed version in the sources yet
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Low. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
Not affected: 1 product
- Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-53861
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-3f47-vg2x-225m
References
Other 1
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- TI-2023-23979 The HTTP/2 protocol allows a denial of service (server resource consumption) because… KEVCVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2026-35991 Starlette has missing Host header validation that poisons request.url.path, bypassing path-based security checks KEVCVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.5
- TI-2026-34281 JavaScript Cookie: Per-instance prototype hijack in assign() enables cookie-attribute injection CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2026-28834 jq: Out-of-Bounds Read in jv_parse_sized() Error Formatting for Non-NUL-Terminated Counted Buffers CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 6.9
- TI-2026-32429 Axios: Credential Theft and Response Hijacking via Prototype Pollution Gadget in Config Merge CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.7
- TI-2023-27712 Python-cryptography: bleichenbacher timing oracle attack against rsa decryption - incomplete fix for cve-2020-25659 CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
Sources
- CVE-2025-53861 · CVE Program
- CVE-2025-53861 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-3f47-vg2x-225m · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2025-53861 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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