cve-2025-2241
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-03-17 16:27
Modified
2025-03-17 17:11
Severity ?
8.2 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
Summary
A flaw was found in Hive, a component of Multicluster Engine (MCE) and Advanced Cluster Management (ACM). This vulnerability causes VCenter credentials to be exposed in the ClusterProvision object after provisioning a VSphere cluster. Users with read access to ClusterProvision objects can extract sensitive credentials even if they do not have direct access to Kubernetes Secrets. This issue can lead to unauthorized VCenter access, cluster management, and privilege escalation.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-2241
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2351350
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Red Hat Multicluster Engine for Kubernetes     cpe:/a:redhat:multicluster_engine
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   Red Hat Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2     cpe:/a:redhat:acm:2
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