CVE-2026-125063
Automation-controller: automation-controller: quadratic regex in schedule rrule validation allows an authenticated user to exhaust api web workers (denial of service)
No exploitation reported by the sources we read.
- Published2026-11-09
- WeaknessCWE-1333
Am I affected?
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Description
A flaw was found in the rrule validation of schedules in automation controller. Several non-anchored regular expressions with lazy wildcard prefixes are applied to the user-supplied rrule value; when the expected DTSTART/RRULE tokens are absent, validation time grows quadratically with the length of the value. An authenticated user can submit a large token-free rrule through the REST API, including the schedule preview endpoint, which requires no resource-level permissions; validation runs synchronously in the API web worker, so a single such request occupies a worker for an extended time and repeated requests can exhaust the web worker pool, denying access to the API and web UI while the attack is sustained. The impact is limited to availability.
Timeline
dates in UTC- 2026-11-0917:51CVE publishedCNA
Versions per branch
Products declared by the CNA
As redhat, the CNA that assigned this CVE, declared them in the CVE record; versions as written. NVD lists no product for this CVE yet: this is the only product data so far.
- Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2other versions: affected
package ansible-automation-platform-26/controller-rhel9https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/
- Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2other versions: affected
package ansible-automation-platform-27/controller-rhel9https://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/
- Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform 2other versions: affected
package automation-controllerhttps://access.redhat.com/downloads/content/package-browser/
Source: the CNA record (CVE Program), © The MITRE Corporation,CVE Terms of UseCVE recordupdated 2026-11-09
Neither OSV.dev nor the vendor advisories we read list affected versions for CVE-2026-125063 yet.
Fix
No fix published by the sources we read yet. NVD record
Detection
- Nuclei template
- none so far ProjectDiscovery
- Exploit-DB
- no entry Exploit-DB
- Metasploit modules
- none listed Metasploit Framework
Sources
- NVDCVE recordread 2026-11-09
- CNACVSS 3.14.32026-11-09
- CNAweakness (CWE)CWE-13332026-11-09
- GitHub Advisoriesadvisory—
Identifiers
- EUVD-2026-120159same flawENISA EUVD · LicenseRef-ENISA-legal-notice
- GHSA-269p-w2wm-cfpfsame flawGitHub Advisory Database · CC-BY-4.0
Technical details
- CVSS v3 Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
- Published
- 2026-11-09
- Last Modified
- 2026-11-09
- NVD status
- Awaiting Analysis
- GitHub Advisory
- GHSA-269p-w2wm-cfpf
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- GitHub Advisory Database · CC-BY-4.0 · GHSA-269p-w2wm-cfpf
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