Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package ansible-tower.src  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-ANSIBLETOWERSRC-14925726
  • published14 Jan 2026
  • disclosed5 Dec 2024

Introduced: 5 Dec 2024

CVE-2024-52798  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1333  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:10.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream ansible-tower.src package and not the ansible-tower.src package as distributed by RHEL.

path-to-regexp turns path strings into a regular expressions. In certain cases, path-to-regexp will output a regular expression that can be exploited to cause poor performance. The regular expression that is vulnerable to backtracking can be generated in the 0.1.x release of path-to-regexp. Upgrade to 0.1.12. This vulnerability exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2024-45296.