Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity Affecting automation-controller package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.31% (25th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL10-AUTOMATIONCONTROLLER-22386419
  • published10 Nov 2026
  • disclosed9 Nov 2026

Introduced: 9 Nov 2026

NewCVE-2026-125063  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1333  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:10 automation-controller.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream automation-controller package and not the automation-controller package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:10 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1